Go to: Speeches, etc. | Archive | Multimedia | Commentary | Chronology
| Date | Category |
Type |
Value | Author/Source | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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] |
| 79 May 15 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 81 Nov 4 We | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 82 Jun 15 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [US bombing of Libya] [audio] |
| 88 May 12 Th | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs [audio] |
| 88 Nov 22 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (immediate reaction to Brighton Bomb) [film] |
| 17 Sep 18 Mo | Multimedia |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | UK/Italy: Interview with Charles Powell (British-Italian relations) |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
| 85 Oct 11 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 82 Oct 8 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 87 Oct 9 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 90 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 88 Sep 20 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech") [film] |
| 78 Jun 20 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference concluding Northern Ireland visit |
| 87 Nov 22 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after meeting French Prime Minister (Jacques Chirac) |
| 88 Sep 12 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks visiting Perth (IRA attack on Sir Kenneth Bloomfield) |
| 90 Nov 16 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks visiting Enniskillen ("never, never give in to terrorism") |
| 85 Jul 3 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Written Statement by Prime Minister and Vice-President Bush (terrorism) |
| 86 Nov 21 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks meeting French Prime Minister (Jacques Chirac) (close cooperation on terrorism) |
| 88 Dec 1 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on the Father Ryan case (refusing comment) |
| 89 Sep 25 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Trivial | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks visiting Dover hospital (injured bandsmen) |
| 90 Jun 10 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks condemning IRA bomb ("abject contempt") |
| 72 Mar 24 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: Stormont suspended; direct rule began |
| 72 Jan 30 Su | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | "Bloody Sunday": British troops killed 13 in Londonderry |
| 74 May 15 We | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: Loyalist strike began; executive resigned (28 May) |
| 68 Oct 5 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: violence at Londonderry civil rights demonstration |
| 69 Aug 14 Th | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: troops deployed in Belfast |
| 79 Mar 30 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Airey Neave murdered by INLA |
| 75 Nov 27 Th | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Ross McWhirter murdered by IRA - MT given 24 hour police protection |
| 74 Oct 5 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Guildford pub bombs: five killed |
| 71 Aug 9 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: internment introduced |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | IRA murdered Mountbatten and 18 soldiers (Warrenpoint) |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Brighton bomb |
| 79 Sep 5 We | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | MT met Irish PM at No.10 |
| 80 Apr 30 We | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | London Iranian Embassy siege began (SAS stormed 5 May) |
| 81 Nov 6 Fr | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish summit in London |
| 81 Oct 10 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | IRA bombed Chelsea barracks |
| 82 Jul 20 Tu | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | IRA bombs in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park |
| 80 Dec 8 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish summit in Dublin |
| 80 Oct 27 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | 1st Republican hunger strike began (ended 18 Dec) |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | MT visited Northern Ireland |
| 81 Apr 9 Th | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Bobby Sands (IRA hunger striker) elected an MP |
| 85 Feb 28 Th | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Newry RUC Station attacked by IRA mortars; 9 killed |
| 83 Dec 17 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | IRA bombed Harrods |
| 83 Nov 7 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish summit at Chequers |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Libyan Embassy siege began after murder of WPC Fletcher (ended 27 Apr) |
| 83 Sep 25 Su | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Mass break out from Maze prison |
| 85 Dec 27 Fr | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Palestinian terrorists killed 27 at Rome and Vienna airports; Libya involved |
| 86 Apr 17 Th | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Hindawi affair - Syrian attempt to bomb El Al 747 at Heathrow |
| 84 Nov 18 Su | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish summit at Chequers |
| 87 Nov 8 Su | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | IRA bombed Enniskillen remembrance service (11 killed) |
| 87 Oct 31 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | French intercepted huge IRA arms shipment from Libya (Eksund) |
| 86 May 30 Fr | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Stalker suspended |
| 88 Oct 19 We | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Broadcasting ban imposed on terrorists and apologists |
| 88 Oct 20 Th | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Plans announced to abolish right of silence |
| 88 Dec 21 We | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Lockerbie bombing |
| 88 Mar 19 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Army corporals murdered at Republican funeral in Belfast |
| 89 Oct 19 Th | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Court of Appeal released Guildford Four |
| 85 Jul 30 Tu | Chronology |
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Minor | [Chronology] | BBC Governors withdrew Real Lives for editing |
| 88 Jan 25 Mo | Chronology |
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Minor | [Chronology] | HC: Mayhew announced no prosecutions from Stalker-Sampson inquiry |
| 87 Jan 20 Tu | Chronology |
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Minor | [Chronology] | Birmingham Six case referred back to Court of Appeal (appeal rejected 28 Jan 1988) |
| 89 Sep 22 Fr | Chronology |
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Minor | [Chronology] | IRA bombed Royal Marine Music School at Deal: ten dead |
| 78 Mar 16 Th | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Italy: kidnap of Aldo Moro (found dead 9 May) |
| 85 Oct 7 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists (arrested on Sicily 11 Oct) |
| 90 Jul 30 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Ian Gow murdered by IRA bomb |
| 88 Dec 2 Fr | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Rhodes European Council (ended 3 Dec): arguments over Father Ryan |
| 79 Mar 22 Th | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Assassination of British Ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes (IRA acknowledged responsibility in 1980) |
| 81 Mar 1 Su | Chronology |
|
Key | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: second Republican hunger strike began (ended 3 Oct with ten deaths) |
| 88 Aug 20 Sa | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | IRA Ballygawley bomb; MT cut short her holiday and initiated security review |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan's briefing cards for Camp David meeting [declassified 2000] [81K scanned image] |
| 84 Dec 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: McFarlane-North briefings (possible approach to MT for help with Contras) [declassified 1987] [149K scanned image] |
| 85 Aug 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: North-Poindexter emails (possible approach to MT) [declassified 1987] [114K scanned image] |
| 85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: Howe telegram to Embassies (meeting with Nicaraguan Vice-President) [declassified c.1987][144K scanned image] |
| 75 Oct 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 80th Meeting |
| 85 Feb 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing memo for President Reagan (MT visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: State Department telegram to London Embassy (US-UK next steps on Syria) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Secretary of State Shultz (meeting with Foreign Secretary Howe) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 1) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 2) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: State Department to US Embassies (British statement on Falklands fisheries) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: State Department telegram (EC statement on Syrian terrorism) [unclassified] |
| 86 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British party reaction to Reykjavik Summit) [declassified 2000] |
| 75 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT meeting with Prime Minister (briefing on situation) [declassified 2005] |
| 78 Mar 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Guide Supplement 1978 |
| 77 Mar 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Guide 1977 |
| 83 Apr 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Guide 1983 |
| 87 Apr 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Guide 1987 |
| 89 May 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Guide 1989 |
| 71 Mar 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Northern Ireland: Hailsham diary (Ulster PM resigns) [coded diary with translation] |
| 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”] |
| 75 Oct 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) | MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (thanks for help with conference speech) [treasures the memory of working till 5am] |
| 76 Oct 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) | MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“all the time the pound & our prestige slide”] |
| 77 Oct 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) | MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“I just don’t know how we shall do better next year”] |
| 82 Oct 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) | MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“I really think that it went rather well; and so much of the credit is due to you”] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Lobby Briefing (murder of Mountbatten) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Lobby Briefing (MT visit to Northern Ireland; British approach to Irish Government) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Northern Ireland, possible meeting with Irish PM, South African Rugby Tour) [released 2010] |
| 79 Sep 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Lobby Briefing (meeting with Taoiseach & text of Joint Statement) [released 2010] |
| 79 Nov 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Lobby Briefing (meetings with Northern Irish MPs, Rhodesia, NUM/NCB pay talks, monetary control statement tomorrow) [released 2010] |
| 79 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Bulletin (PM’s safety at Lusaka) [Rhodesians claim terrorist threat to PM at CHOGM - deadpan response] [released 2010] |
| 79 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Bulletin (Paisley meeting with MT) [UDR medals returned in protest] [released 2010] |
| 80 Nov 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 67 (The Queen's Speech on the Prorogation of Parliament) [declassified 2010] |
| 75 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Steering brief for Rome European Council [declassified 2006] |
| 80 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Record of conversation (Personal Representatives of G7 Heads of State of Government) [preparation for Venice summit] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jun 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rome 7-power meeting (preparation for proposed political discussions at Venice summit) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jan 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (US response to the Iran hostage crisis) ["I am genuinely puzzled by the restraint shown by the United States in the recent emergency..."] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Explosion of Lord Mountbatten's Boat") [initial report] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Text of proposed Younger statement (death of Earl Mountbatten) ["Not issued, on PM's instruction"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Message from Lord Chamberlain's Office (Queen commands mourning to be worn) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to MT (arrangements for Lord Mountbatten's funeral) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: UKE Washington to FCO (statement by the US State Department on death of Mountbatten) ["I reiterate in the strongest terms the condemnation of the US Government of all groups or organisations which seek their goals in Northern Ireland through violence"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to MT ("Lord Mountbatten's Funeral") [arrangements] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Lord Mountbatten") [expressions of sorrow, shock and shame in the Republic of Ireland] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Lord Mountbatten") [Chancellor Schmidt "deeply shocked" by murder] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: FCO letter to No.10 ("Death of Mountbatten: President Carter's Message") ["we have been struck by the lack of reference in [Carter's] message to the circumstances of Lord Mountbatten's death"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone (seating arrangements for Mountbatten's funeral) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to James ("Lord Mountbatten's Funeral") [arrangements] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: No.10 note to Peterson ("Flowers") [wreath for Mountbatten] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to MT (memorial service for Lord Mountbatten, Lady Brabourne and Nicholas Knatchbull) [MT: "Yes - we must go"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [occupation of the US Embassy, rumour of attack on British Embassy] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US/Iran Relations") [hostage crisis] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Occupation of the Embassy") [attack on British Embassy] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: Lankester minute to MT ("Iran and the Dollar") [Carter orders freezing of Iranian assets] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Iranian Dollar Balances") [Chancellor of the Exchequer conversations with US Treasury staff] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: Record of telephone conversation (Carrington-Vance) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [general report] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran: Hostages") [the Shah and the hostage crisis] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Washington to FCO ("US Military Options Against Iran") [possible mission to rescue hostages] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Hostages in Tehran") [actions of UN Secretary-General Waldheim] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Tehran-Community Demarche") [record of call by Community ambassadors on President Bani Sadr of Iran] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 25 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [hostage crisis] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 25 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Washington to FCO ("The U.S.A. and their Allies") [discussion with Vance] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [voting on draft constitution] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: FCO to Washington ("Iran") [Carrington message to Vance] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [referendum on draft constitution] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US Embassy, Tehran") ["this is a most intractable problem"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: Carter message to MT (seizure of US Embassy, Tehran) [notice of arrival of Robert Carswell and George Vest in UK] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-US Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury, Robert Carswell) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US-Iran Confrontation") [situation report] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO (message from Laingen, US Chargé d'affaires in Tehran, to Vance) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO (report of conversations between Danish, Dutch and Swedish ambassadors and Tabatabai, brother-in-law to Khomeini) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iran: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-US Treasury Secretary Miller) [oil, Middle East, BNOC, US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between the Prime Minister and Mr Lynch: Press Reactions") [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Washington (Carrington message to Vance) ["grave concern" over Vance's decision against supplying arms to Royal Ulster Constabulary] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Possible PIRA Reaction to the Pope's Visit") [possible effects of Pope's visit to Ireland] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Lord Carrington's Interview with CBS News") [transcript of portion of interview] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO to UK Missions and Embassies ("Security Coordinator in Northern Ireland") [Maurice Oldfield appointed NI Security Coordinator] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hunt briefing for MT ("Prospects for Political Progress in Northern Ireland (OD(79) 26)") [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington to FCO ("Northern Ireland: British Information Effort in the United States") [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Record of conversation (Atkins-Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs-Irish Minister for Justice) [Pope's visit to Ireland, security services, political situation, economic matters] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hunt briefing for MT ("Prospects for Political Progress in Northern Ireland (OD(79) 32)") [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Tony Marlow MP (Sinn Fein press conference following Pope's visit to Ireland) [Press conference "showed the total sterility of their philosophy of violence"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Political Development") [draft parliamentary statement] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Stowe letter to MT (letter of thanks and note by Maurice Oldfield, Northern Ireland Security Coordinator) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Murder of Lord Mountbatten") [report on progress of trial] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Week Beginning 28 August 1979) [murder of Mountbatten] [released 2010] |
| 79 Sep 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Week Beginning 3 September 1979) [murder of Mountbatten] [released 2010] |
| 80 Jan 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT ("Mr Atkins' Statement on Northern Ireland Bombs") [progress report] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 (Carrington's parliamentary answer on the PLO and terrorism) [background] [declassified 2010] |
| 81 Jul 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | G7: Ottawa Summit statement ("Ottawa Summit Statement on Terrorism") [released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 69") [weekly survey note] [released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to General Sir John Stanier (MT's visit to wounded Irish Guards) ["It was the least I could do to show how I felt for those who were so callously hurt"] [released 2012] |
| 82 Jul 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: Gow minute to MT ("Voting Rights for United Kingdom Citizens Resident in the Republic - Irish General Elections") [notes for PMQs on Anglo-Irish relations; Irish citizens' voting rights in UK elections] [released 2013] |
| 82 Oct 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: Gow minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Gow talks with John Hume] [released 2013] |
| 82 Jul 25 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 123") [weekly survey note] [released 2013] |
| 82 Sep 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: FCO to Hong Kong Government ("Conservative Party Conference: PM's Speech") [draft passage on international issues; sent to PM's party in Hong Kong] [released 2013] |
| 82 Jul 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Colonel Parker Bowles (IRA bomb in Hyde Park) [sympathy at losses suffered by the Household Cavalry Regiment] [released 2013] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Death of Mountbatten: Christopher minute to Carter (IRA claims responsibility for Mountbatten's death) [US Embassy in London "reports receipt of numerous phone calls protesting support of the IRA by Irish-Americans and expects to be the target of a demonstration tomorrow"] [declassified 2008] |
| 79 Nov 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Iran: Carter draft message to MT (US Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran) [declassified 2008] |
| 79 Dec 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | US: Vance minute to Carter (Henderson meets with Vance) [Iran hostage crisis, Diego Garcia, arms for the RUC] [declassified 2008] |
| 79 Dec 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | US: Vance minute to Carter (Rhodesia and Iran sanctions) [MT should talk to Nigeria regarding UN vote on Iran sanctions] [declassified 2007] |
| 80 May 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Iran: State Department minute ("Iran Update - May 6") [Bani-Sadr's message to MT] [declassified 2008] |
| 80 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: NSC or State Department memo (actions by allies on Iran and Afghanistan) [declassified 2005] |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (situation in HMP Maze and Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Alexander (advice on MT's response to the Fermanagh and South Tyrone By-Election) [Armstrong forsees possibilty of PIRA ceasefire] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to MT ("Sands") [background briefing on Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Hume-Atkins-Alexander) [situation in Northern Ireland, hunger strike at HMP Maze, terrorism] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [likely impact of Sands' death] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Funeral of Robert Sands") [arrangements for funeral and potential unrest] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Northern Ireland: Death of Sands") [reporting on Sands' death and situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Alexander-Dermot Nally) [situation in Northern Ireland following death of Sands] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Prison Protests in Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Hunger Strike") [attitudes in the Protestant and Catholic communities] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (draft letter from MT to Molyneaux) [mortar attacks on security forces in County Fermanagh] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Bishop Edward Daly letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze and situation in Northern Ireland) ["I do think that if your Government could see its way to implement some changes in prison regime applying to all prisoners here...it would receive a positive response"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Bishop Edward Daly (situation in Northern Ireland and hunger strike at HMP Maze) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington to FCO ("Northern Ireland: Meeting with Friends of Ireland") [Henderson meets with Ted Kennedy and others] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("H Blocks") [hunger strike at HMP Maze; serious problems anticipated if Kieran Doherty dies; "recruitment into the IRA...now much greater than recruitment into the Irish Army"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: Alexander minute to MT ("Arab/Israeli Dispute") [Carrington's case "for making an effort to move the PLO towards the conditional recognition of Israel's right to exist within secure boundaries"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("Arab/Israel Dispute") [Carrington to begin discussion with the PLO] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO to UKE Tel Aviv ("Secretary of State's Meeting with the Conservative Friends of Israel") [Carrington discusses Arab-Israeli conflict, potential meeting with PLO and Arafat] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Fermanagh Widows: 7 July 1980") [brief for MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Meeting with the Fermanagh Widows") [commentary of Northern Ireland security authorities on the suggestions of the Fermanagh widows] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Aug 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Fermanagh widows letter to MT (request for MT's help regarding border security) ["we would implore you to intervene personally to see that security operations are no longer bluff, but REAL"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (letter from the Fermanagh widows to MT criticising border security) [comment on security operations in Fermanagh] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Mrs Harriet Howe (response to letter from the Fermanagh widows to MT criticising border security) ["there has been no slackening whatever in the efforts of the Security Forces in the Newtownbutler area, or indeed anywhere else in Fermanagh"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 8 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT (Lord Brookeborough requests meeting with MT to discuss security situation in Northern Ireland and County Fermanagh in particular) [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland letter to No.10 ("Lord Brookeborough's Call on the Prime Minister") [briefing for MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February") [UK priorities and objectives] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Pastor Bain (Darkley Gospel Hall shootings) ["I deeply mourn the deaths of your elders"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Goodall briefing for MT ("Possible Banning of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Sep 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (murder of Constable Johnston of the RUC Reserve near Rosslea) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Molyneaux letter to MT (murders in Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations) [people "do not understand how [HMG] can be about to engage in friendly political discussion" with Irish Government when those who commit murders in NI cannot be extradited to UK from Eire] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Molyneaux letter to MT (need to push for reform to extradition arrangements during Anglo-Irish talks) [sends message "that the Government regard Ulster's place in the United Kingdom as expendable"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Molyneaux (terrorism in Northern Ireland, Anglo-Irish joint studies) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Aftermath of the Prime Minister's Visit to Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Molyneaux letter to MT (mortar attacks on security force bases in Northern Ireland) [mortars may have been made, "practice-fired and tested at bases" in the Republic of Ireland] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Molyneaux letter to MT (security situation in Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: John Biggs-Davison MP letter to MT (Northern Ireland situation and policy) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Proscription of the Ulster Defence Association") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: Political Development and the Prison Situation (OD(81) 32 and 33)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to John Biggs-Davison MP (Northern Ireland situation and policy) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Paisley) [situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 May 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | G7: Brief for MT bilateral meeting with Mitterrand at G7 Williamsburg summit ("Bilateral: President Mitterrand") [UK/French elections, arms control, EC budget, INLA terrorists in France] [released 2013] |
| 83 Jul 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Israel: Coles minute to MT ("Dinner in Tribute to Shlomo Argov") [arrangements for MT speech: "This is not an occasion for a speech about the Middle East and we have worked on the assumption that you would prefer to speak about terrorism"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Israel: MT draft speech with annotations ("Draft Speech by the Prime Minister at the Dinner in Tribute to Shlomo Argov: 21 July, 1983") [second draft] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: Flesher minute to MT ("Royal Green Jackets") [Hyde Park and Regent's park bombings: arrangements for remembrance ceremony] [released 2013] |
| 83 Feb 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Peter Robinson MP (proposed memorial plaque in House of Commons for Robert Bradford MP) [reservations] [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Pastor Robert Bain (Darkley Gospel Hall massacre) ["I can imagine the sense of shock, grief and anger that must be in all your hearts today"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Dec 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Hazel Bradford, wife of Robert Bradford MP (murder of Edgar Graham and Harrods bomb) [dealing with terrorism] [released 2013] |
| 83 Dec 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Mrs Dodd, wife of Inspector Stephen Dodd (IRA bombing of Harrods: death of Inspector Dodd) [released 2013] |
| 83 Dec 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Harrods IRA bomb) [released 2013] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 note to Cartledge ("Irish Events") [Warrenpoint ambush: MT to write to next-of-kin of soldiers killed] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 note to Cartledge ("Irish Events: Arrangements made") [Warrenpoint ambush: Atkins to come to No.10] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington to FCO ("Death of Lord Mountbatten") [statement by House of Representatives Speaker O'Neill: "the perpetrators must be condemned in the strongest terms"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Alexander minute to Cartledge (Warrenpoint ambush: MT writing to next-of-kin) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MOD note to No.10 (Warrenpoint ambush: list of soldiers missing and believed killed) [MT: "16 letters here [to next-of-kin]...At the back are the two...which I fear may be needed before the day is out"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Mrs Anne Blair, wife of Lieutenant Colonel David Blair (Warrenpoint ambush) [MT: "On Monday, we lost our bravest and most courageous men, men who followed the superb example set by Colonel Blair"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Security Cooperation") [response to Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Mountbatten] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins and Pym draft paper for discussion at Cabinet ("Northern Ireland: Security") [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Cartledge minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Mountbatten: points arising from briefing by Army and RUC] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: Security (C(79) 34)") [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Wade-Gery note to MT ("Northern Ireland") [disagreement between Pym and Atkins on leadership of Security Directorate: "they are understandably anxious that this morning's Cabinet should concentrate on the conclusions of their paper rather than on its details"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington to FCO ("U.S. Attitudes to Northern Ireland") [Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Lord Mountbatten: influencing US opinion] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Political Progress in Northern Ireland") [MT comment on Atkins' plan: "No - this has not even been discussed with Cabinet"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Security Directorate") [extensive comments by MT: "I find this memo somewhat confusing"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins note to MT (Atkins to spend next two weeks in Northern Ireland) [follow-up to Warrenpoint ambush and Mountbatten murder: "I shall be trying to resist any other cause to come to London in order to have a solid spell moving about the Province"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 2 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Transcript of remarks by Atkins on BBC Radio 4's 'World This Weekend' ("Lord Mountbatten Killed by IRA") [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Extradition") [extradition from UK to Republic of Ireland] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to James Kilfedder MP (MT rejects call to recall Parliament in wake of Warrenpoint ambush and Mountbatten murder) ["I must emphasise that this decision in no way detracts from the seriousness with which the Government views recent events"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Law Officer's Department ("Extradition") [UK-Republic of Ireland extradition] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (Warrenpoint ambush and Mountbatten murder) ["I do not accept that we are dealing with the terrorists with, to use your words, "kid gloves on""] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Security Cooperation") [arrangements for next UK-Eire meeting of Ministers] [declassified 2009] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
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 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
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 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
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 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 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 |
|
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 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 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 31 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland") [brief for meeting with Howe and Hurd] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 81 Sep 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letters to Miss Sharon and Mrs P McCloskey (hunger strike: response to letters about Liam McCloskey) ["despite what is said and written by some people about my attitude to the hunger strike, I very much regret that young men have been prepared to throw away their lives"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Peking ("Anglo-Libya Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: shots fired from Libyan Embassy in London; killing of Yvonne Fletcher] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Tripoli ("Anglo-Libya Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: concerns about UK Ambassador in Tripoli; breaking off diplomatic relations with Libya] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Peking ("Anglo-Libya Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: "the situation is getting increasingly tense for our personnel in Tripoli"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Peking ("Anglo-Libya Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: situation report: death of Yvonne Fletcher; considering searching Libyan Embassy in London] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Lisbon to FCO ("Anglo Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: MT gives Luce authority to proceed "as he recommends"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Peking ("Anglo Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: latest developments in Tripoli] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Lisbon ("Anglo/Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: message from UK Ambassador in Tripoli: "My staff and I are being prevented from leaving the Embassy"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Lisbon ("Anglo/Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: UK Ambassador in Tripoli told that desire exists in Libyan government to "de-escalate"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Lisbon ("Anglo/Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: UK Ambassador in Tripoli meets with Suweidan: refused permission for UK police to enter Libyan Embassy in London] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Flesher minute to MT (Libyan Embassy siege: situation in London and Tripoli) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: MT message to parents of Yvonne Fletcher (Libyan Embassy siege: death of Yvonne Fletcher) ["the whole nation mourns with you"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Lisbon (Libyan Embassy siege: update for MT and Howe) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Tripoli ("Libyan Crisis") [Libyan Embassy siege: moving towards breaking off diplomatic relations; position of British community in Libya] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Brittan) [Libyan Embassy siege: "The Home Secretary asked whether repatriating the Libyan staff including the perpetrator of the murder could be defended. The Prime Minister thought it could"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Lisbon ("Anglo/Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: situation in Tripoli; assessment of options] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Coles minute to MT (Libyan Embassy siege: situation update) [FCO argue that "the possibility of successful legal action being taken against anyone [in the Libyan Embassy] is remote"; Home Office do not necessarily agree] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Lisbon to FCO ("Anglo/Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: MT supports breaking off diplomatic relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Shipley minute to Barclay ("The Libyan Embassy Incident") [Libyan Embassy siege: domestic considerations; risk of terrorism; intelligence] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 21 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Libyan Embassy siege situation report (2000 20 April to 0800 21 April 1984) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Libyan Embassy siege situation report ("Anglo/Libyan Crisis: Situation Report as at 2000 Hours 23 April 1984") [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Tripoli to FCO ("Practical Arrangements") [Libyan Embassy siege: arrangements for breaking off diplomatic relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Tripoli to FCO ("Anglo-Libyan Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege: "if British Police entered the [Libyan Embassy in London] after the departure of Libyan staff...the Libyans would burn down this Embassy [i.e. UK Embassy in Tripoli]"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Tripoli ("Interests Sections") [Libyan Embassy siege: agreement that Libyans may maintain an interests section in the embassy of "an acceptable protecting power in London"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Libyan Embassy siege situation report ("Anglo/Libyan Crisis: Situation Report At 1900 Hours 24 April 1984") [action against Libyans, police plans, emissary, Libyan reactions] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Home Office letter to No.10 ("The Libyan Crisis") [Libyan Embassy siege: draft of Home Secretary's statement to the Commons] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: No.10 letter to FCO (Libyan Embassy siege: Vienna Convention) [MT "believes that one clear lesson from the crisis...is that the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is defective"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Tripoli to FCO ("Practical Arrangements") [Libyan Embassy siege: interest sections, protecting powers, packing up Tripoli Embassy, advance party] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Tripoli to FCO ("Arrests, Prisoners, Etc.") [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Tripoli to FCO ("Libya: Buildings") [Libyan Embassy siege: need to prevent sacking of UK Embassy after departure from Tripoli] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: UKE Tripoli to FCO ("Departure Arrangements") [Libyan Embassy siege: departure of British staff from UK Embassy in Tripoli] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Tripoli ("Practical Arrangements") [Libyan Embassy siege: interests section for Libya in UK, protecting powers, departure of British staff from UK Embassy in Tripoli] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Libyan Embassy siege situation report ("Anglo/Libyan Crisis: Situation Report As At 1900 Hours 25 April 1984") [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Brittan statement to the House of Commons ("Libyan People's Bureau (Shooting Incident)") [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Lord Sieff letter to MT (background information on Colonel Gadaffi: support for the IRA) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Libyan Embassy siege situation report ("Anglo/Libyan Crisis: Sitrep at 0800 Hours on 26 April") [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Luce letter to Tebbit (defence sales to Libya: Luce favours revocation of export licences) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Libyan Embassy siege situation report ("Anglo/Libyan Crisis: Sitrep at 0800 Hours on 27 April") [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Emergency Unit minute to No.10 ("Libyan Crisis") [UK Ambassador to Tripoli makes farewell call on Traiki] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Flesher minute to MT ("Libyans") [Libyan Embassy siege: points to discuss with Brittan] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Heseltine letter to Luce ("Libya - Defence Sales") [Libyan Embassy siege: argues against revoking export licences] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: No.10 letter to MOD (defence sales to Libya) [Libyan Embassy siege: MT supports Luce's position on revocation of export licences] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Home Office letter to No.10 (Libyan Embassy siege: answers to MT's enquiries) [departure of UK Ambassador from Tripoli, departure of Libyan staff from London] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: List of Libyan Embassy staff processed through Sunningdale [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Duff minute to Butler (possible Iranian and Libyan terrorist attack in London) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Brittan statement to the House of Commons ("Libyan People's Bureau (Closure)") [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Howe statement to the House of Commons ("Libya (Diplomatic Relations)") [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO to UKE Abu Dhabi ("Libya") [Libyan Embassy siege: report suggests that Libyan missions have been instructed to plan actions against British targets] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO letter to No.10 ("Libyan People's Bureau and Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations") [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: David Owen MP letter to MT (threat to British ex-patriots in Libya) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO letter to No.10 ("Libya") [Libyan Embassy siege: investigation into erroneous reports from Tripoli] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Flesher minute to MT ("Libyan Guns") [Libyan Embassy siege: guns allegedly found in UK Embassy in Tripoli were purchased by Libyans in London] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Joseph letter to MT (Libyan students in the UK) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: No.10 letter to FCO ("Libya") [Libyan Embassy siege: report of British capture of Libyan ship with IRA-trained terrorists aboard] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: David Owen MP letter to MT (threat to British ex-patriots in Libya) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO letter to No.10 ("Libya") [Libyan Embassy siege: report of British capture of Libyan ship with IRA-trained terrorists aboard] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: MT letter to David Owen MP (threat to British ex-patriots in Libya) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: FCO letter to Home Office (expediting the release of Douglas Ledingham of British Caledonian) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Hatling minute to Flesher (draft letter from MT to David Owen MP) [Libyan Embassy siege: threat to British ex-patriots in Libya] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: David Owen MP letter to MT (threat to British ex-patriots in Libya) [Libyan Embassy siege: Owen criticises handling of the information he has passed on] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO letter to No.10 ("Ottawa Summit: Briefing for the Prime Minister: Northern Ireland") [briefing for meeting with Reagan] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO letter to No.10 ("Ottawa Summit Statement on Terrorism") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO letter to No.10 ("Ottawa Summit Statement on Terrorism") [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Jan 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Jul 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister 20 July" - UK foreign policy overview) [MT: "May I have a spare copy for the flat to ponder on from time to time"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
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 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: MT speaking text (Conservative Conference speech) [post-Brighton Bomb] [released 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Gaisman minute to MT (“Party Conference”) [engagements, clothes, milk quota meeting] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Press |
|
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 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
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 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
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 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 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
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 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 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 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
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 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
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 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
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 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative party: Sherbourne minute to MT (Tebbit public letter of support for Portillo in Enfield by-election) [NT specifically seeks MT approval; she grants it] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Hailsham letter to MT (grieving) [“fight the good fight against the forces of darkness”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: John Coles letter to MT (admiration) [“your courage, calm and nobility in the aftermath”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
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 |
|
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 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 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Sherbourne letter to MT (conference speech) [“you spoke for the nation”] [released 2014] |
| 83 Jan 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Middle East: Parsons minute for Coles (“Arab League Delegation”) [“we were not about to change policy in response to pressure”] [released 2014] |
| 83 Dec 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT engagements list (Ulster visit - “Operation Piston”) [flying programme] [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 | Press |
|
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Brighton Bomb: (“Intelligence warnings that were ignored”) [“Police told of possible attack”] |
| 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 |
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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] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI Alexandria teletype to FBI Director (“Possible threat to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain”) [conversation overheard by a “source of proven reliability”] [declassified 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] |
| 86 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI airtel (“Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - Victim”) [arrest at time of Nov 1986 Camp David visit] [declassified 2014] |
| 89 Dec 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI memorandum (phone threat to MT & President Bush) [“God’s Soldiers”] [declassified 2014] |
| 92 Jul 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI airtel (PIRA plot to MT) [“uniquely placed source”] [declassified 2014] |
| 92 Sep 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI memorandum (“Alleged threat to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher …”) [named IRA operatives “capable of carrying out such an act”] [declassified 2014] |
| 92 Aug 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI Boston teletype to FBI Director (PIRA plot against MT) [PIRA suspects - background and movements; threats against MT - “we are going to take care of her”] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Feb 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Treasury letter to Lord President’s Office (criminal attacks on ministers’ property) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Treasury (compensation for criminal attacks on ministers’ property) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10(“Recent Arrests and Charges Against Terrorists”) [large number of recent charges] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Constitutional Development (OD(82) 6)”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“PIRA - Desmond Ellis”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“PIRA Arrests”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Northern Ireland: PIRA Arrests”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Mr Prior’s proposals”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Aug 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hopkins letter to Rickett ( Guardian articles on compensation for widows of Warrenpoint soldiers) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to Boys-Smith (economy, security, political situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong note to Coles (Soviet Union’s attitude toward PIRA) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland:Huxtable note to Kerr (compensation for victims of terrorist attacks) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Rickett note to Hopkins (compensation for widows of Warrenpoint soldiers) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Alexander note for MT (compensation for widows of Warrenpoint soldiers) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jan 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO telegram to priority certain missions and dependent territories (“Prosecution of Terrorists by the Republic of Ireland”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Dec 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Biggs-Davison note to Gowrie (rejection of “integration”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Dec 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (FitzGerald statement on Northern Ireland, Anglo-Irish relations) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Professor Wilkinson (strategy on terrorism) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Professor Wilkinson letter to MT (border security) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Boys-Smith note to Pattison (Paisley’s offer of his “third force”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Pattison note to MT (transcript, “Sunday” Programme on reactions to Paisley) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Henry Steel letter to G.L. Angel (“Meeting with Irish Attorney-General”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Paisley letter to MT (Ulster’s demands) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Howell (“CPA Delegation”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Statement by Prior (Government attitude toward a united Ireland) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland:Lyne note to Pattison (security situation in William Ross’s constituency) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland:Kilfedder statement (PIRA campaign, situation in Ulster) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hopkins minute to Alexander (Paisley on Ulster deaths) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKC Sydney telegram to MT (security in Ross’s constituency) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Eamon Kennedy note to MT (FitzGerald statement on Robert Bradford’s murder) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKHC Canberra telegram to MT (William Ross’s safety concerns) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO telegram to UKHC Canberra (security of William Ross’s family) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO telegram to UKHC Canberra (information on security in William Ross’s constituency) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Gow note to MT (“‘the whole place is a tinder box’”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Mrs Roy Bradford (“deepest sorrow”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT telegram to Molyneaux (statement on Bradford murder) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Oct 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-Dooge meeting) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Oct 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Mexico City telegrams to FCO (“The IRA in Mexico”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hopkins note to Alexander (compensation for victims of terrorism) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Paisley (effectiveness of security forces) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hopkins letter to Alexander (Paisley’s comments on effectiveness of security forces) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Aug 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Paisley letter to MT (IRA terrorism in Belfast) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to Boys-Smith (economy, security, political situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Security Co-ordinator’s report to Prior (review of security situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Oct 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Whitmore letter to Roy Harrington (Security Co-ordinator post) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Nott & Atkins minute to MT (future of Security Co-ordinator post) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 80 Jun 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Roy Harrington minute to MT (appointment of a new Security Co-ordinator) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Oct 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Jerry Wiggin letter to Elton (“Criminal injuries compensation for servicemen’s widows”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jul 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Nott note to Havers (“The South Atlantic Fund”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jul 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Dr Kennedy’s meeting with Mr Hurd”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jul 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Gow minute to Whitmore & Prior (security situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 83 Jun 28 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior speech to Northern Ireland Assembly (“Government’s Northern Ireland policy”) |
| 83 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Home Office minute (“Prevention of Terrorism. Exclusion of Members of Parliament”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Coles letter to John Lyon (Prior’s views on prospects for the future) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Apr 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute for MT (“The Provisionals and the General Election”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Henry Steel letter to Graham Angel (“Extradition from the Republic of Ireland”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Henry Steel letter to Coles (“Extradition from the Republic of Ireland”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Jan 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (FitzGerald speech) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO telegram (“Shootings involving the Security Forces”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Nov 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Panorama: Gerry Adams”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Derek Hill letter to Robin Butler (Prior’s visit to the US, meeting with Dam) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Coles letter to Mottram (“Compensation for victims of terrorism”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: NIO press office note (“Ken Livingstone’s invitation to Morrison and Adams”) [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
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 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
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 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 Jan 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to David Storey (proposed amendment to 1973 Constitution Act) [“the Province’s position within the United Kingdom is secured by the wishes of the majority of its population”] [released 2014] |
| 83 Jun 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: FCO briefing for Stuttgart bilateral (MT-FitzGerald) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Jul 28 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Iraq: Armstrong to No.10 (“JIC Assessments”) [Armenian terrorism, Threat to shipping in the Persian Gulf] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Jan 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO to No.10 (“PLO”) [brief assessment for MT: aims and tactics] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: Sir Antony Duff to Robert Armstrong (“Terrorism in The Middle East”) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 (“Palestine National Council (PNC): 14-22 February”) [main political statement] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Algiers to FCO (“PNC: Political Statement”) [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Mar 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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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 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Norman Tebbit to MT (thanks for her support during his recovery) [returning to cabinet] [released 2015] |
| 85 Mar 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 84 Jan 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Butler minute to Hill (paramilitary threat to Associated Foods) [Taoiseach and MT’s shared concerns] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jan 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hill letter to Heyhoe (“Ministerial Dealings with Sinn Fein Members”) [“no Northern Ireland Office Minister will meet any Sinn Fein MP or Assembly Member”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior statement (Hennessy Report) [escape from the Maze] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hatfield minute to Taylor (“Destruction of the IRA”) [proposals for new security arrangements] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Butler letter [recipient redacted] (Shipley recommendations on destruction of the IRA) [“a considerable intelligence effort is directed at Irish terrorism”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: CRD briefing (“Debate on the Hennessy Report on the escape from the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland”) [the report and government action; contentious points; ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: JIC report (“The Strategy of the Provisionals”) [aim “remains that of forcing the withdrawal of the British from Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (draft speaking note) [“we do now need to consider the possibility of a new approach to the Irish question”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (meeting between Prior and Enoch Powell) [Molyneaux’s position] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Tom Hadden and Kevin Boyle submission to Forum for a New Ireland (“analysis of the problems in Northern Ireland”) [recommends package of measures for move “towards peace and stability on the island”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FitzGerald address (advance text of speech to joint meeting of Congress) [“not one of us, in Britain or in Ireland, is free of some guilt for what has been happening in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong (“Northern Irland: The Forum”) [“affairs in the Forum had taken a turn for the better”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Coles (“Mr Haughey and the British”) [attitude “reflects and influences the large nationalist element in the Irish electorate”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“PIRA threat to Weston supermarket chain”) [“Irish anxiety to ensure by all possible means that money does not pass to PIRA”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Ulster Special Constabulary Association”) [“There has been a steady build up in terrorist violence by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior letter to Elles (Haagerup report) [“appreciation of all your efforts to secure a reasonably favourable outcome”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Northern Ireland prisons”) [“some prison officers were so intimidated by fear of attack outside the prison that they were turning a blind eye to some of the rules”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Political Development”) [“We have to recognise that any attempt at political advance carries risk, including a deterioration in security”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: James Lee transcripts of interviews with Prior (Forum report) [“we are prepared to discuss and look at any means whereby we can make some progress toward greater peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland”] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“UK-US Supplementary Extradition Treaty”) [MT-Reagan talks in New York] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 84 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell letter to Colin Budd (Prior valedictory note) [“things cannot be left as they are”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Colin Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Mr Barry’s Speech to the Britsh Irish Association, 15 September”) [“the overall impression conveyed was one of optimism about the prospects for significant improvement in the situation”] [declassified 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 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 Aug 14 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Press tape story (Galvin incident) [Prior takes responsibility for mistakes] |
| 84 Sep 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [“very serious consequences of such a large sum of money finding its way into the hands of the PIRA and being used for the purchase of arms”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [the Irish side “accepted that what was now under discussion was not joint sovereignty or joint authority”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Havers minute to Hurd (“R -v- Dominic McGlinchey”) [“we may be heading for a very difficult and embarrassing series of events in connection with it”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Sandiford letter to Butler (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [press reports that “a large sum of money had found its way by a circuitous route to the Dublin branch of the Bank of Ireland, and that some of this money had already been withdrawn”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Turner letter to MT (Brighton bomb) [“how glad we were you escaped without injury”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 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 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 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 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 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 31 We | Declassified documents |
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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 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 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hurd meeting with Barry and Noonan) [security, extradition, procedures] [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 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] |
| 86 Feb 23 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: White House memcon (President Mitterrand-Ambassador Vernon Walters) [possible cooperation over Libya] [declassified 2008] |
| 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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] |
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