Go to: Speeches, etc. | Archive | Multimedia | Commentary | Chronology
| Date | Category |
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Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 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 | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
| 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] |
| 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 Oct 11 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 |
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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 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 2 (Armed Protection for British Government Representatives Overseas) [declassified 2010] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 19 (Convention Against the Taking of Hostages Bill) [declassified 2011] |
| 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] |
| 82 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: FCO steering brief for MT ("President Reagan's Visit to London - 7-9 June 1982: Talks with the Prime Minister...") [declassified 2012] |
| 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] |
| 82 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Lebanon: Coles minute to MT ("Contacts with the PLO") [MT rejects idea of meeting between HMG Minister and PLO representative: "No - not a Minister. The PLO will still continue their terrorist activities..."] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Lebanon: Pym message to MT ("Lebanon: Proposed Visit of Arab League Delegation") [Pym urges MT to allow HMG Minister to meet with delegation] [declassified 2012] |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks; MT: "'the bomb' has slowed things down and may in the end kill any new initiative"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Libya: Joseph letter to MT (Libyan students in the UK) [Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Charles Powell note for Duty Clerk ("Brighton Bomb Attack") [list of messages from world leaders, and replies] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: MT speaking text (Conservative Conference speech) [post-Brighton Bomb] [released 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Gaisman minute to MT (“Party Conference”) [engagements, clothes, milk quota meeting] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: “To Kill the Cabinet” (“The story behind the Grand Hotel bombing”) [Brighton Evening Argus 40 page supplement] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Roy Mason (thanks for his message) [“You will have seen the same thing happen time & again in Northern Ireland”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Catholic prelates (Hume, Gray, Worlock, Murphy-O’Connor) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Anglican prelates (Archbishops Runcie (Canterbury), Habgood (York), Bishops Leonard (London), Sheppard (Liverpool), Walker (Ely), Wood (Norwich)) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 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 |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (thanks for message) [“The victims of this terrible act are and will remain in all our thoughts and prayers”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 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 |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Sieff (thanks for message & flowers) [“The Marks & Spencers manager at Brighton was marvellous”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Home (thanks for message & flowers) [“overwhelming revulsion expressed by the British people for this wanton act of violence”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 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 |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks for message) [“The terrible explosion at Brighton last week has inevitably cast a long shadow”] [released 2014] |
| 84 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 |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Hailsham letter to MT (grieving) [“fight the good fight against the forces of darkness”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: John Coles letter to MT (admiration) [“your courage, calm and nobility in the aftermath”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Shridath Ramphal (thanks for message) [Ramphal conveys Commonwealth outrage, sympathy] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Stuart Young (thanks for message) [“I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your kind words”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Minor | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI memorandum (“Threat against British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher”) [Camp David visit] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Minor | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI memorandum (phone threat to MT & President Bush) [“God’s Soldiers”] [declassified 2014] |
| 92 Jul 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI airtel (PIRA plot to MT) [“uniquely placed source”] [declassified 2014] |
| 92 Sep 9 We | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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] |
| 85 Jun 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 21st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, public expenditure) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 23rd (leak, Home Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, US/UK diplomatic relations) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Situation & Public Expenditure 1986-87 & 1988-89, Review of Student Support) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 26th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland affairs) [Anglo-Irish Agreement draft] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Sep 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 27th (Membership, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Economic Affairs) [Handsworth riot] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 29th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen’s Speech) [Tottenham riot] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Social Security Review) [Ulster by-elections; Fowler review approved] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Oct 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 20 (The Queen’s speeches on the prorogation and opening of Parliament) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 23 (The Queen’s Speech on the Opening of the New Session) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 10th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, British Leyland) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 15th (Libya, Shops Bill) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 16th (Queen’s birthday, Parliamentary Affairs, Libya, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 17th (Wallis Simpson’s death, Prince Andrew’s marriage, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, British Leyland) [confidential annex on immigration controls at London Airport] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Oct 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Dec 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 41st (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 42nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Airborne Early Warning Aircraft) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 Feb 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Constitutional Development (OD(82) 6)”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“PIRA - Desmond Ellis”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“PIRA Arrests”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Northern Ireland: PIRA Arrests”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Mr Prior’s proposals”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Aug 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to Boys-Smith (economy, security, political situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong note to Coles (Soviet Union’s attitude toward PIRA) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland:Huxtable note to Kerr (compensation for victims of terrorist attacks) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Rickett note to Hopkins (compensation for widows of Warrenpoint soldiers) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Alexander note for MT (compensation for widows of Warrenpoint soldiers) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jan 6 We | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Biggs-Davison note to Gowrie (rejection of “integration”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Dec 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Professor Wilkinson (strategy on terrorism) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Professor Wilkinson letter to MT (border security) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Statement by Prior (Government attitude toward a united Ireland) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland:Kilfedder statement (PIRA campaign, situation in Ulster) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hopkins minute to Alexander (Paisley on Ulster deaths) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKC Sydney telegram to MT (security in Ross’s constituency) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT telegram to Molyneaux (statement on Bradford murder) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Oct 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-Dooge meeting) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Oct 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Mexico City telegrams to FCO (“The IRA in Mexico”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hopkins note to Alexander (compensation for victims of terrorism) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Paisley (effectiveness of security forces) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Sep 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Paisley letter to MT (IRA terrorism in Belfast) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to Boys-Smith (economy, security, political situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Whitmore letter to Roy Harrington (Security Co-ordinator post) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Nott note to Havers (“The South Atlantic Fund”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jul 28 We | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Gow minute to Whitmore & Prior (security situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 83 Jun 28 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior speech to Northern Ireland Assembly (“Government’s Northern Ireland policy”) |
| 83 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Home Office minute (“Prevention of Terrorism. Exclusion of Members of Parliament”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute for MT (“The Provisionals and the General Election”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Henry Steel letter to Coles (“Extradition from the Republic of Ireland”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Jan 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (FitzGerald speech) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO telegram (“Shootings involving the Security Forces”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Nov 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Panorama: Gerry Adams”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Coles letter to Mottram (“Compensation for victims of terrorism”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Bill Deedes letter to Michael Alison (MT reaction) [“your boss is going to suffer - is already suffering - delayed shock over Friday”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Local government: MT letter to Robert Kilroy-Silk (rating system) [“This Government recognises that the present system is far from perfect; it will be looking for a system that is altogether fairer and more robust”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Adam Ridley letter to Sherbourne (Special Advisers) [terms and conditions of employment] [released 2014] |
| 84 Jan 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: FCO briefing for Stuttgart bilateral (MT-FitzGerald) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Jul 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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] |
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