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84 Jun 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT record of conversation (MT-President Botha) [presses on Mandela release: "Transkei takes responsibility"] [released Jul 2018] |
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87 Oct 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Star") [letter to Lloyd Turner regarding changes to editorial line-up at tabloids, Jeffrey Archer case] [released Jul 2018] |
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87 Oct 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Local government: Hamilton record of conversation (Environment backbench committee) [most attendees want Community Charge brought in as soon as possible] [released Jul 2018] |
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87 Dec 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT ("James Goold") [hopes MT will visit Scotland next year] [released Jul 2018] |
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87 Dec 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Draft Article for Sunday Express, 3 January") [points made: look forward with confidence to the future, remind people of changes made, government delivering what people want] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Clothes diary (outfits worn) [1 Jan - 1 Dec 1988] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 10 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Nigeria: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Visit by the Prime Minister 7-8 January") ["most successful visit ... establishing "close and friendly relationship with President Babangida"; British press 'deplorable'] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Whitelaw resignation, NUM, security, economy) ["you leave power struggle open by declining to nominate new deputy Prime Minister"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Rifkind minute to MT (paper on strategy in Scotland) ["level of support is dangerously low for the party of Government"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Italian PM Goria (thanks) [MT now longest serving British PM of 20th Century] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for telemessage) [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Paul Getty (thanks) [thank you for everything you do for our country] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Alhaji Udu (thanks) [arrangements for MT's visit to Nigeria] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Mary Whitehouse (thanks) ["Your own work to promote higher standards and civilised values has been tireless"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Michel Camdessus (IMF Structural Adjustment Facility) ["essential that the increased resources now be deployed carefully, in support of strong adjustment programmes"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Industry: MT to Neil Kinnock (BP) [Kuwait Investment Office's holding of BP shares] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Labour in crisis, industry) [growing crisis on health service policies] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [Rifkind argues government should apply policies on housing, education and privatisation "more determinedly in Scotland"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Meeting with Lord Goold: Wednesday 13th January 1988") [to discuss current state of the party in Scotland] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Griffiths-O'Sullivan minute ("Scotland. The Election Result") ["worst result for the Tories since 1945" - "a low reservoir of Conservative support North of the Border"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["NHS continues to dominate"], DTI revamp, industry, NHS, nurses, free food, politics, education, law & order, media, sport) [Tebbit, Heseltine and Brittan combine to criticise government plans to end automatic regional aid grants] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Government: MT to Neil Kinnock (request for file from Macmillan papers) [file is closed but some infomation could be released confidentially] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, NHS reforms, economy, law and order, NATO) [Liberals and SDP in turmoil after fiasco over merger] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, law and order, Shepherd Bill, NHS, Labour) [Steel's merger shambles] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Budget, Liberals/SDP, sport, law and order) [Kill or cure for Moore in health row] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Miss Wilson (MT's school records) [would be wrong to release the records] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Party Political Broadcast") [Tony Jay script - "a great nation on the move ... a new spirit abroad in the land ... The people who came here ten years ago to study the illness now come here to study the cure"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, health funding, Liberals/SDP, Labour Listens) [Sort NHS out, Moore is ordered] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting with Scottish ministers to discuss how to improve the party's position, Rifkind and Policy Unit have prepared papers] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT to Peter Carrington (public lecture on USSR) ["It would be marvellous if you would do it"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Budget, Liberals/SDP) [Mixed reviews for John Moore's performance in NHS debate] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute ("American Television Interviews") [MT's views on INF ratification] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Budget, media, industry) [Moore says militant hotheads can't be allowed to wreck the NHS] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with L'Express") ["intended as a curtain raiser for the Anglo/French Summit... and also for the European Council"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Ly Tilney (thanks) [memories] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Art: MT to Amintore Fanfani (thanks) [delighted to receive book of paintings] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Gordon Brown (estimated cost of income tax cuts) ["at a time of economic growth, it is quite possible both to cut taxes and to increase the real resources available to the National Health Service"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Alton abortion bill, industry) [nurses' action will only harm patients] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 24 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
NHS: Ingham briefing for MT ('Panorama') [interview annoucing NHS Review] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Scargill re-election to NUM, NHS reforms, Liberal/SDP merger, industry) [Scargill effectively becomes president for life] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Hamilton record of conversation (MT-1922 Executive) [worry at lack of Opposition; MT - "great deal of opp[osition] H. of C., T.V."] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cabinet/MT: Wicks minute for MT (Whitelaw invitation to reception to mark 10th anniversary in office, May 1989) [consider policy towards the event] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/MT's broadcast, Scargill re-election to NUM, industry, Liberal/SDP merger) [NHS faces huge shake-up] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks and Bernard Ingham minute ("Interview with the Star") [questions about: problems facing the NHS, electricity privatisation, capital punishment, violent crime, North/South divide, foreign policy] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Security Services: MT to Tam Dalyell (Cavendish book on intelligence services) [government acted to restrain publication] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hamilton record of conversation ("PUSS's") [Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of States - brainstorming lunch with MT] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cabinet/MT: MT letter to Willie Whitelaw (thank you for cabinet dinner to celebrate passing Asquith's record) ["What a pity we don't meet together more often for convivial occasions. But perhaps there isn't time"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Northern Ireland, journalism, law and order, industry) [MT seen to be getting to grips with the NHS] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, AIDS, industry) [Royal College of Nurses refuse to meet MT] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: MT letter to Doris Hare (BBC interview announcing health review) [glad she thought Panorama went well, "they are always something of an ordeal"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Birmingham bombers' appeal, NHS, Official Secrets Act) [Anglo-Irish Agreement under renewed strain] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John O'Sullivan to John Whittingdale ("Scottish Spectator") [probable costs and revenue of a Scottish magazine] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jan 30 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion polls: Ingham note for MT ("Sunday Times opinion poll") [Cons 50, Lab 36, All 12 - paper suggests public wants MT to get on with NHS reform] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: MT letter to Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid (BBC interview announcing health review) ["I hate these interviews. You never know how they are going to turn out!"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Liberal/SPD merger, education, industry) [14-point lead in polling] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT preface to Michael Butler book (awarded Adolphe Bentinck prize) [Butler's work at crucial stages in negotiations with EC over accession and bduget] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Religion: MT to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop (disruption of prayers in parliament) [deplores the behaviour but any suspension of an MP's pay would be a matter for the Commons] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Religion: MT to Archbishop of Canterbury (Church urban fund) [welcomes the initiative and agrees with Runcie on the importance of partnership with inner city ventures] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Hamilton record of conversation (DTI backbench committee meeting) [CBI hearing: profit-related pay, energy prices] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Hamilton minute for Bearpark ("Showbiz Reception, 18th April, 1988") [proposes inviting actors who played Conservative MPs on TV] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, economy, Ireland, Kohl visit) [88 percent of nurses dissatisfied with handling of NHS] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Charles Price (thanks) [gift of "Laughter Lines" book] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health: MT to Rocco Forte (cutting NHS costs) ["a clear indication that our continuing drive to improve NHS efficiency... is proving very worthwhile"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Africa: MT to Neil Kinnock (visits from Savimbi and Dhlakama) [government has had no approach about possible visits] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Hamilton minute for MT ("Reception to mark the Bicentenary of the Birth of Sir Robert Peel Wednesday, 3rd February 1988") [event at Lancaster House hosted by Hurd] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, Kohl visit, Northern Ireland) [nurses joined on picket lines by Labour MPs] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT to Peter Carrington (public lecture on USSR) [Carrington declines request to deliver lecture, "we shall not find anyone so well qualified"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: MT to Richard Shepherd (Official Secrets Act) [government's proposals are "effective, enforceable and reasonable"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, domestic politics, industry) [Battle of Trafalgar at nurses' strike] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Brooke memo for MT ("Tackling the Labour Party") [MT: "I should have preferred our first real attempt at Party 4th term strategy to be positive"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, trade unions, energy) [Government considering using health stamps rather than taxation to fund NHS] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health: MT to Lady Lothian (use of foetal material for research purposes) [explanation of government's position] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health: MT to Neil Kinnock (NHS reforms) ["the review will be wide ranging and fundamental"; all proposals will be considered on their merits] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ford strike, industry, economy, budget, NHS reforms) [Ford strike-bound - digs in for long stoppage] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to David Sheppard (thanks) [gift of "Better Together"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: No.10 minute for MT (Conservative MPs voting to televise the Commons) [ministers' names marked] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ingham briefing for MT ("Wall Street Journal") [danger of questions driving wedge between MT & Lawson] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Commons TV, electricity privatisation, strikes, NHS reforms) [Strikes knock £8bn off shares] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Wall Street Journal") [areas of interest: economic trends, East/West, global trends, British domestic policy, legacy of Reagan-Thatcher years] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT to Nicholas Bethell (Nelson Mandela's release) ["the humanitarian and the political case... is compelling" but not yet sure it would contribute to the end of apartheid] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (Television in the House of Commons) [Mulroney urges MT to resist "at all costs"; CDP - "A bit late: but an awful warning"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Commons tv, law & order/morality, Ford strike, industry, politics, health/NHS, housing, Ireland, EC, Arab/Israel, South Africa) [majority of 54 for televising Commons, seen as personal defeat for MT] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Duke Hussey letter to Denis Thatcher (BBC Today programme - possible libel against MT) ["I really do not know what to say"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health: Hamilton minute for MT (Cranley Oslow statement at 1922) [John Moore asking MPs to contact him directly not through DHSS] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Hamilton minute for MT (upcoming votes) ["The advantage of you voting on the Prevention of Terrorism Act is that it strengthens your hand in criticising the Opposition for not supporting it"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Mrs Miller Smith (thanks) [impressed by visit to perfumery and gift] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT to Keith Joseph (dinner in his honour) ["our country owes so much to Keith"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, European Community budget, NHS funding, Budget) [political row over death of Birmingham hole in heart boy] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Ruud Lubbers (thanks) ["I appreciated all your help and co-operation... over two difficult days"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health: MT to David Alton (abortion bill) [MPs to make up their own minds; MT will not meet a delegation] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health: MT to Leon Brittan (CPC pamphlet on health care) ["I am so pleased that you have considered this matter and made your own proposals"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT to Julian Amery (thanks for letter) ["the time is not now - but we must wait upon events"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT to Saddam Hussein (David Mellor's visit) ["a sign of our wish to develop and strengthen bilateral relations"; concerns about continued imprisonment of two British citizens] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT to Sheila McCarthy (son held hostage) ["The important thing is to get the hostages out, and to prevent more innocent people from being taken"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Wicks minute for MT ("Televising the House of Commons") [do not start with State Opening; security aspects - exhibitionists and terrorists] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to bishops (Albert Hall prom) ["we all enjoyed ourselves enormously"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("ITN interview") [likely topics: East/West relations, NHS, the economy, industrial relations, Anglo-Irish relations, televising the Commons] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Civil service: MT to Neil Kinnock (Efficiency Unit report) [much of press reporting has been inaccurate] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Bishop Graham Leonard (thanks) [for sending copy of the Declaration of Unity, Witness and Mission] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: MT to Tim Brinton (televising the Commons) [the decision "is causing many people to consider the consequences and all kinds of issues are now being discussed"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Northern Ireland, Ford strike, industry) [media criticism of Northern Ireland policy] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT interview on NHS, Budget, civil service reform) [No more cash for NHS in Budget] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with the Today newspaper") [questions about: hopes for the 21st century, socialism, opposition, health service, Lords opposition, women in politics] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
NHS: John O'Sullivan notes ("Notes on the NHS Review") [early days yet, moving towards dedicated health tax with contracting out or competitive local health funds; 12 papers, 103pp] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Land Rover strike, industry, domestic politics, NHS) [Ebullient report from CBI on state of economy] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Hamilton minute for MT (situation in Afghanistan) [Abdul Haq "says an agreement has been reached on the formation of an interim government to replace the communist regime"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Gaisman to Chief Whips' Office (Chequers lunch for whips) [arrangements] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, air safety, Land Rover, industry, media, NHS) [criticism of Paul Channon] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting on how to improve the presentation of the Conservative message and "implementation of radical policies which will break up the 'dependency culture'" which limits Conservative support] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, BBC, Budget, NHS) [Anglo-Irish meeting amidst a sea of troubles] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Feb 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, EC VAT rules, domestic politics, electricity privatisation) [criticism of European bureaucrats taking liberties with British freedoms] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Feb 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Social policy: MT to Lady Faithfull (letter on delivery of services) [progress made on dealing with child abuse, underage drinking, family services, juvenile justice] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Feb 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Lady Faithfull (coordination of child welfare services) [response to her paper] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Denis Thatcher note to No.10 Private Office ("Ref: Show Business Reception 18 April") [vetting list of stars] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, electricity privatisation, domestic politics, local government, NHS reforms) [electricity plans on the whole well received] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT to Saddam Hussein (clemency for prisoner) ["We very much welcome this gracious gesture of goodwill"] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Feb 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Northern Ireland, Labour, Budget, industry, inner cities, NHS) [Anglo-Irish relations set for new turmoil] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Archie Hamilton record of conversation (Duke Hussey-Conservative backbench Media Committee) ["defended himself well, but did not satisfy many of his interrogators, who included Norman Tebbit in abrasive form"] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Mar 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: Bearpark minute for Hamilton (land in the south east) [impact of the greenbelt on housebuilding, available land in the East End] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Mar 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS prescriptions, NHS reforms, economy/Budget, Ireland, media) [row over rise in prescription charges] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Hamilton minute for MT (tour of No.10) [MT refuses requests] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hamilton minute for MT ("Drinks for MPs - Monday, 14th March") [MT unhappy with Conservative MPs on Social Services Committee for adverse report] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NATO summit, student loans/education, NHS reforms) [summit outcome well received] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, inner cities, Ireland/IRA, Budget, domestic politics, drink/drive) [reaction to inner cities drive] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Gibraltar/IRA, inner cities, industry, economy, NHS reforms) [search in Gibraltar for IRA car bomb, violence in West Belfast] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Bearpark minute ("Communications with the Prime Minister") [changed arrangements to ensure rapid communication with MT] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, economy, industry, restrictive practices) [IRA deaths in Gibraltar, row with Irish government] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with BBC Radio Northern Ireland") [questions about: MT's political career, women in politics, family life] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen Mother's letter, education leak, Ireland, restrictive practices) [dominated by QM's letter about closure of hospital ward and MT's letter to Baker about testing in schools] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Defence: Hamilton draft note for MT (Value for Money discussion) ["there is a very strong argument for bringing commercial management into the MoD at a very senior level"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, skiing tragedy, education letter, economy, industry, NHS reforms) [coverage of Prince Charles' skiing accident - said to have been inches from death] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, budget, Ireland, NHS, media, industry, politics, local government, Community Charge, education, law & order, EC, NATO, Rudolf Hess) [Tebbit rejects idea this would be Lawson's last budget] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Budget, Ireland, NHS, industry) [Budget overshadowed by 'row' over sterling and exchange rates] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Budget, NHS, environment, industry) [sterling/exchange rates row, Lawson's authority] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Budget treatment, Budget comment, industry) [Budget well received, political focus now switches to NHS] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Redwood speech draft ("Speech module - budget and economy") ["The dynamism of the British economy is now one of the economic miracles of the world"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ingham note for MT ("Extract from an interview in Toyo Keizai ... by David Peake, Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Limited") ["A miracle has been performed by Mrs Thatcher and the British people"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Hamilton minute for MT (Forestry Sub-Committee meeting) [Budget tax proposals "would have the effect of preventing Terry Wogan from planting fir trees in Scotland with his showbiz earnings"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA funerals, Budget, domestic politics, NHS, industry, South Africa) [papers dominated by Stone killings at IRA funeral] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, management of economy, Budget, industry, South Africa) [speculation over interest rates, comment on tax cuts] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ulster comment, MT's conference speech, domestic politics, Budget, education) [King to give statement on IRA killing of two soldiers at funeral] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Welfare: Hamilton record of conversation (Health and Social Services backbench committee meeting) [withdrawal of housing benefit; Portillo argued that "taxpayers with no capital should not be subsidising other people with significant sums of capital"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Northern Ireland, unions, industry, Budget, education, litter) [media restiveness over King's statement on IRA killing of two soldiers at funeral] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with Turkish Television") [to cover: bilateral relations, Turkey's application to join the EC, NATO, East/West relations] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, litter, Budget) [release of film of lynching of soldiers in Northern Ireland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, return of soldiers, Ireland, domestic politics) [release of Northern Ireland funeral coverage] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Scottish Office briefing (MT's visit to Inverclyde) [programme for the visit, Rifkind due to launch "New Life for Urban Scotland" policy] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party, Ireland, NHS, education) [challenge to Kinnock's leadership] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Charles Powell minute ("Visit to Turkey: Interview with BBC World Service") [BBC likely to ask about human rights in Turkey; wider issues include Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Arab-Israel conflict, US/USSR summit] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, unions, industry, Ford, economy, politics, local government, education, health/social security, law & order, Ireland, defence, GATT, Gibraltar) [Tebbit dismisses as "bloody rubbish" claim he would back Lawson leadership bid] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Hamilton minute for MT (lunch for peers) [suggested attendees] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, economy, sterling, industry, restrictive practices, nurses) [media interest in government respnse to union restrictive practices] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Terry Perks minute ("Interviews with BBC TV Scotland and Grampian TV at the end of Scottish tour") [questions about: Ford and Dundee, community charge, devolution, health policy] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 29 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Malcolm Rifkind speech ("Urban Policy - Scotland") ["there is in place in Scotland a strong array of instruments to pursue urban renewal"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Rover, social security, NHS, Budget/economy, industry) [political storm over 'giveaway' sale of Rover] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
NHS: John O'Sullivan minute for MT ("The Health Review: looking ahead") [halfway stage - state of play; MT not wholly agreeing] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Mar 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party, MT's Scottish tour, civil service, economy/Budget, NHS) [Prescott challenges for Labour deputy leadership] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Mr and Mrs Dennison (Clause 27 of the Local Government Bill) ["People are free to live their own lives in private but should not expect to flaunt their lifestyle on the local authority rates to the offence of their fellow citizens"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, school tragedy, hijack, Turkey visit, court TV) [22 Britons on board hijacked Kuwaiti jet in Iran] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion polls: CCO Monthly Polling Review (March 1988) [Cons lead over Lab ranging between 5.5 and 14 per cent; polling on the 1988 budget] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: DTI letter to No.10 ("Single Market Campaign: Lancaster House Conference") [suggests cutting material in MT speech critical of ideas for European Union, for fear of provoking Delors, speaking 10 minutes after her] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, NHS, hijack, Norman Tebbit/Prince Charles) [hijack gunmen warn government not to send in SAS] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Education: Terry Perks minute ("Interview for 'Woman' magazine") [questions about education: MT's school experience, parental involvement in children's education, behaviour of children, Education Reform Bill] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hamilton minute for MT ("Lunch for Colleagues") [MT concerns; MT changes to draft seating plans] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, hijack, social security, economy, domestic politics, industry, Northern Ireland) [hijack continues after gunmen kill second passenger] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute ("Scottish Daily Express") [requested questions for MT's interview, on state of the Conservtive party, Scottish economy, community charge, devolution] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute for Gray, Addison, Whittingdale ("Scottish Daily Express") [possible areas for questions: state of Conservative party in Scotland, economy, community charge, devolution, health and social policy] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, hijack, social security, roads, industry, NHS, education, Northern Ireland) [ongoing hostage situation, MT defends social security reforms as bringing greater fairness] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Griffiths note for MT (forwards letter from Cardiff) [MT's revolution "nothing short of an earthly miracle"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Local government: Hamilton record of conversation (Environment backbench committee) [attitudes towards poll tax] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, hijack, Mother Teresa, Community Charge, industry) [hopes ebb and flow for hostages] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute ("Daily Express - Scotland") [key points: demonstrate interest in Scotland, determination to implement policies and win back support, Scots should stop feeling sorry for themselves] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, government policies, economy, Labour Party, hijack) [Ridley bought off revolt on poll tax before parliamentary rebellion] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Community Charge: Charles Powell note to MT (congratulations on defeating Mates Amendment) ["A respectable result, thanks to a strong will"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Community Charge, Olympics, social security) [interest in poll tax vote, Tory rebellion] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Community Charge, Gulf, Single Market) [poll tax vote and Gulf War share prominence] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Community Charge, Ron Brown, the leak, NHS) [trouble expected for poll tax in the Lords] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, hijack, Labour Party, NHS, Community Charge) [row over Algeria's position on hijackers] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Ingham briefing for MT ("Brian Walden - Tuesday") ["he wants to kill stone dead the idea, propagated by her enemies, that she is authoritarian, humourless, without human feelings"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, hijack, Labour Party, NHS, Community Charge) [row over Algeria's position on hijackers] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Japan: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with Yiomuri Shimbun") [points to work in: bilateral relations, Japnese economic reforms, Japanese investment and scientific research, problems with the Japense economy] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 23 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Community Charge, social security, industry) [expectations of concessions on social security] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, P&O ferry dispute, NHS, European fighter aircraft, economy, Ron Brown) [looming strike at Dover] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Welfare: Bernard Ingham minute ("Sir David English") [Daily Mail interview to dicuss reform of the welfare state] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 26 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview with Brian Walden for Sunday Times [full transcript released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hamilton minute for MT ("Drinks for MPs") [strongly urges her to meet Defence Committee Conservatives, including Michael Mates; MT agrees but only 'Just ...'] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hamilton minute for MT ("Memoirs") [Whitelaw; Tebbit - coming out "for crude commercial reasons" 2-3 days before conference; "certain amount of menace"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, Community Charge, ferry strike, Ireland) [government set for benefits u-turn] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, ferry strike, industry) [social security concessions head off Tory revolt] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Japan: Michael Bates minute ("Interview with NHK Japanese television") [points to work in: UK-Japan relationship, Japense economic reforms, Japanese scientific research, problems with the Japanese economy] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Apr 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Thames TV programme, Ireland, Ken Livingstone, social security, ferry strike) [row over Thames TV's account of IRA deaths in Gibraltar] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA bombings/terrorism, P&O, Ireland, industry, economy) [British police seeking IRA killers in Holland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to Lord Goold (Scottish Cup Final) [information on participating teams] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, terrorism, P&O dispute, community charge/local elections) [attempted bomb attack on German army captain, reactions to IRA] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute ("Visit of the Hungarian Prime Minister") [TV interview, points to get across: memories of Hungary visit, bilateral relations/East-West relations, personal contacts, economic reforms, Grosz's visit] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, terrorism/broadcasting, P&O dispute, Takeshita's visit) [Howe's intervention over BBC film on IRA deaths in Gibraltar] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT (Scottish conference speech) [meeting to discuss contributions for the speech] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Wicks minute for MT ("Meeting with the Chief Whip") ["possibilities for nipping in the bud, before they arise, future backbench rebellions"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, local elections, French hostages, Gibraltar, P&O/unions) [local election boost for Labour, Alliance setback, Tories hang on] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scottish Conference Speech") [Rifkind's recent speeches on Scotland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Bernard Ingham minute ("The Washington Post") [main points: MT's role within NATO and EEC, relationship with Gorbachev, arms control, US-UK relations, Northern Ireland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister/Chief Whip: Wicks minute for MT ("Meeting with the Chief Whip") ["possibilities for nipping in the bud, before they arise, future backbench rebellions"; as annotated by MT] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's interviews with Brian Walden and Hungarian TV, Ireland, seamen's strike, domestic politics) [MT to stay on until younger man emerges, Owen rejects MT's overtures] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Amanda Ponsonby minute ("Scottish Cup Final") [teams' colours] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, terrorism, Community Charge, welfare, seamen's strike) [IRA deaths] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: HMT to John Whittingdale (Scottish conference speech) [information on tax measures with an impact on farming] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Rifkind Special Adviser to John Whittingdale (press interest in Scottish party conference) [devolution will dominate proceedings from a press point of view] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, seamen's strike, unions, environment, MT's Washington Post interview, Thatcher's children) [ongoing strikes] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, share's crash, Community Charge, education, seamen's strike) [shares slump after Lawson hints of world-wide rise in interest rates] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Terry Perks minute to MT ("Visit to Glasgow on Saturday 14 May") [programme of events] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, David Steel, seamen's strike, industry, domestic politics) [Owen accuses Steel of 'parachuting out'] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: MT speaking notes (Association of Conservative Peers) [reminds them that "fundamental structure and detail" of Community Charge bill was endorsed by the electorate] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Sterling, economy, education, defence) [pound expected to soar as speculation continues] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: Charles Powell minute ("Anglo-Swedish Television") [main points to get over: Sweden's help with Iran, Britain's economic success, individual enterprise, EC Single Market, arms control] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, sport, Sterling, Broadcasting Standards Council) [Kinnock to challenge MT to back Lawson's handling of exchange rate] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Sterling, unions, industry) [Lawson cuts interest rate] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: MT to Lord Goold (Scottish party conference) ["I hope that it may represent a turning point in the fortunes of our Party in Scotland"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Addison note for MT (sends leading article from the Sun) ["Ignore 'em Maggie" - attack on Lawson and Howe over sterling] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Sterling, trial failures, health and welfare, education) [Lawson's position on the pound] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Robin Catford minute to MT ("Visit to Holyroodhouse and General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (20/21 May)") [media coverage being stepped up, ceremonial events, background briefing notes] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Labour: Hamilton minute for MT (MT's Commons exchanges with Kinnock) [Skinner said: "She hit him for bloody six all this week. He's not up to it"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, unemployment, Sterling, soccer hooliganism, Wilberforce) [delight over unemployment fall tempered by high lending and inflation fears] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 21 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: MT speaking text ("Speech to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Saturday 21 May 1988") ["it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong but love of money for its own sake"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's Scottish speech, Community Charge, law and order, industry) [MT's use of bible passages] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister/Home Secretary: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Home Secretary") [football hooliganism; Prison Officers' Association; police pay and manpower; Brent and Section 13 grants; broadcasting; Toronto G7 & drugs; General Assembly speech] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Community Charge, soccer, nurses, MT's Scottish speech) [Lords poll tax vote] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Science: Guise briefing for MT (E(ST) Meeting) [beware "a great new winner picking game masquerading as a new dawn"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, Lords, moral ascendancy) [moral debate occupies the high ground] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party policies, Rowntree, economy, Summit) [continued coverage of MT's Scottish Conservatives speech] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 May 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, domestic politics, Rowntree, industry) [MT rejects Kinnock's claim that Rowntree decision put 'for sale' sign on British industry] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 May 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Your Edinburgh Speech") ["a best seller", with exceptional demand for copies] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 May 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Visit to General Assembly") [press cuttings on speech] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Tumbledown, summit) [Scots Guard officer controversy] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas memo for MT ("Notes for discussion with the Prime Minister") [federalist original thinking done 30 years or more ago; "The "Europe of Nations" has never been carefully worked out, to my knowledge. We could be at a turning point in our history"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, Tumbledown, moral dimension) [generally good reception for Summit outcome] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with 'Early Times'") [questions about: freedom of speech, education reform, televising the Commons, Glasnost, MT's achievements, Anglo-Irish agreement, unemployment] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jun 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, Spycatcher, juries, moral dimension) [coverage of MT's meeting with Reagan, arm's deal] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Charles Powell minute (Toronto Star interview) [aims for Toronto Summit, co-ordination among G7 economies, protectionism, East/West relations] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Whittingdale record of conversation (MT-Hugh Thomas preparatory discussion on speech) ["must be positive in order to knock down federalist ideas ... United Europe but not European Union"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour defence policy, Iran, economy, NHS) [Kinnock enrages Left] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: MT to Bishop of London (General Assembly speech) [use of quote "Christianity is about spiritual redemption, not social reform" - "these days it seems to be about the Welfare State only"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell briefing ("Interview with Soviet Television") [points of discussion: Soviet-American dialogue, role of Western Europe, Soviet-American summit, meetings with Gorbachev, bilateral relations] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party policies, housing, domestic politics, health) [Kinnock u-turn on defence] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Trade Unions: Hamilton minute for MT (P&O dispute) ["it was really all over for the NUS"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, hanging, civil justice review, Lester Piggott, A-Levels) [MPs reject restoration of capital punishment] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: MT to Bishop of Gloucester (General Assembly speech) ["no previous Government has spent anything like as much as this one on helping those in need"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's speech and Battersea, law and order, defence) [MT's warning to TV to clean up its act, claim that Britain is 'humming', interview on Russian TV] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party, rural violence, Toronto summit, NHS) [Kinnock leadership, relationship with unions] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Irish extradition, Denzil Davies resignation, soccer hooliganism) [angry media reaction to government failure in lost extradition case] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, football hooliganism, Labour Party, City, economy) [trouble in West Germany as English fans fight with Dutch and German fans] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Hamilton record of conversation (MT-1922 Executive) ["join EMS ... dismantle MIR ... S.E. over heating ... uncertain note - need strategic plan"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, soccer hooliganism, Parliament) [more arrests in Germany] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, soccer violence, Labour Party, Ireland, Parliament, NHS) [government's five-point package to curb hooliganism] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, soccer violence, Nelson Mandela concert, politics, Toronto summit) [further incidences of hooliganism] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, TUC, MT's Ottawa speech, Toronto summit) [Canadian Parliament furious over MT's 'meddling' in domestic politics] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Hamilton minute for Chief Whip (Parliamentary Private Secretaries) [arguments for improving the status of PPSs] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, politics, Hanover, industry, law and order) [Nestle wins takeover battle for Rowntree] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hamilton record of conversation (Alan Clark appearance before Trade & Industry Committee) [Clark climbdown on labelling Canadian seal furs] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Jun 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Northern Ireland, Labour Party, Royal Navy, European Community) [Gorbachev steals headlines with plans to democratise Communist Party] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party, Official Secrets Act) [mixed reception for Official Secrets Act reforms; Kinnock attacks Left] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jun 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Robin Catford minute to MT ("Speech to Church of Scotland General Assembly") [speech by Professor Torrance on MT's use of biblical language] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Official Secrets Act, Labour Party, Soviet Union, identity cards) [speculation that Parkinson will be next Chancellor] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT statement (completion of single market) ["the biggest challenge United Kingdom business has faced in our lifetimes"] [released Jul 2018] |
 |
88 Jul 3 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Written Statement on destruction of Iranian airbus (USS Vincennes) |
|
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88 Jul 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, US/Iran, yobboism, law and order) [US admits shooting down Iranian plane] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Iran, Gibraltar, NHS, economy) [Khomeini calls for war on US] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Cleveland inquiry, Gibraltar inquest, IRA, Iran) [reports that it is unlikely SAS will give evidence at IRA inquest] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Cleveland, soccer, Gibraltar, Gulf) [doctors and local authority face legal action from parents] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Piper disaster, soccer hooliganism, rate support grant) [166 feared dead in North Sea disaster] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
USSR: Bernard Ingham minute ("BBC Russian Service - Phone In") [questions likely on: Soviet Party conference, perestroika/glasnost, environment, Chernobyl, Gorbachev, East/West relations] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (Senator Sam Nunn - "A Defense Agenda for America's Next President") [CDP: "an important article - in effect the Democratic defence manifesto"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: Hamilton record of conversation (92 Group dinner) [list of attendees and likely topics] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Kinnock's tour, MT's meeting with Kohl, economy, Kensington by-election, Piper oil disaster) [Conservatives ahead in polls, satisfaction with Kinnock drops] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute (Nigel Hawthorne interview) [will be lighthearted] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 11 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for BBC Russian Service (phone-in questions from Russian listeners) |
|
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88 Jul 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Dukakis, law and order, MT's broadcast to Russia, Kinnock) [South Africa sanctions] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: Whittingdale minute for Griffiths ("definitive statement" of MT's remarks on society) ["It is people who get things done"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Greek attack, Rover/BAe, education, law and order) [coverage of Greek holiday boat attack] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
USSR: MT to Soviet phone-in listener (BBC phone-in programme) [invitation to visit No.10] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA bombing, Piper oil platform, industry, Rover, Kinnock) [IRA operations in Europe] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Rover/BAe, economy, mortgages, law and order, Kinnock's tour) [Conservatives win Kensington with reduced majority] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: Bernard Ingham minute ("Sunday Express") [should emphasise: changes made, reforms to be achieved, caring about people, determination to raise standards, crime and punishment, Britain's role in the world] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Reshuffle: Wicks notes on list of ministers (promotions/sideways moves/dismissals) [DHSS split, etc] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Kinnock, air traffic, housing, industry) [Kinnock to protest to Mugabe after being held at gunpoint] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Iran, Kinnock, Labour politics, economy, industry, crime) [Iran calls ceasefire with Iraq] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor and Walters, Kinnock, industry) [Tory MPs back Lawson, MT tells Walters to shut up] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor, student loans, politics, economy) [Lawson's future] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Michael Butler (Treaty of Rome's treatement of subsidiaries) [advice on the legal interpretation; trade with Japan and the US] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Energy: MT to Armand Hammer (Piper Alpha) [grateful for his visit so soon after the tragedy and his generosity since then] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: MT to Bishops Sheppard and Warlock (Merseyside Taskforce) [government committed to regeneration of the area] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor, Labour politics, local government, privatisation) [MT defends Lawson, Lawson makes 'declaration of independence'] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Neil Kinnock (appointment of European Commissioners) ["people should not serve as Commissioners for too long"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Mohammad Zia (thanks) [gift of mangoes] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: MT to Charles Price (Montreal Protocol) [UK's procedures for ratification are complete] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cambodia: MT to Prince Sihanouk (Toronto G7 summit declaration) ["It remains to be seen whether the Vietnamse Government will abide by their declared intention to withdraw all their troops"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Lord Cockfield (retiring as EC Commission Vice President) ["A great deal of the credit for initiating the drive to complete the... single internal market goes to you"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Stanley Clinton-Davies (next EC Commissioners) [will not nominate Clinton-Davies or Cockfield again, "people should not serve as Commissioners for too long"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT to Judi Dench (Sharpeville six) [efforts to secure clemency] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Hartley Shawcross (thank you) [lunch at Friston, opera at Glyndebourne] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA bombing, Leon Brittan, estate agents, education, industry, economy) [Labour MPs denounce proposed EC role for Brittan due to Westland role] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT to Neil Kinnock (scale of deprivation) ["comprehensive mandatory sanctions would propel the region downward into a vicious cycle of increased suffering without bringing the end of apartheid any nearer"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Emmanuel and Elizabeth Kaye (Glyndeborne) [thanks for a wonderful evening] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Gro Harlem Brundtland (views on "Our Common Future" report) [British government's support] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: MT to Jim Goold (Bill Hughes' ideas on Scottish enterprise) [MT would like this to be discussed further] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Law and order: MT to Mrs Holms (death of Holms' son) ["in the absence of a majority in favour we have no basis on which to seek the reintroduction of the death penalty"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lawson letter to Mark Lennox-Boyd (congratulations on his appointment as MT's PPS) [busy job, chat soon] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Jimmy Young Show: European Community") ["your struggle to make Europe less theoretical and more practical ..." increasing bureaucracy "is the SOCIALIST way"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Hamilton record of conversation (Conservative backbench meeting on Barlow Clowes collapse) ["Dept of T&I share responsibility for collapse... overwhelming case for compensation to be paid"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, reshuffle, HOTOL, City, education, housing, law and order) [reshuffle generally well received, Moore seen to have been demoted] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: Charles Powell minute ("Jimmy Young Show: European Community") [points to make: UK's unfair share of EC costs, EU spending, completion of Single Market, burden of regulations on businesses] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT to Harry Oppenheimer (thanks) [looks forward to reading the book he sent] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT to Ronald Reagan (Iranair flight 655) ["The accident seems at least to have helped bring home to the Iranian leadership the urgent need for an end to the Gulf conflict"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Education: Hamilton record of conversation (Conservative backbench Education committee) [universities, funding, loans] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, reshuffle, Labour politics, petrol, HOTOL, Chernobyl) [Clarke gets good press, favourite to succeed MT] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Michael Bates minute ("Interview with the Australian media: 29 July") [questions on: relations with new US President, trade unions, social welfare, social conditions, South Africa, Gorbachev, Northern Ireland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's broadcast, Ted Heath, Labour politics, economy, overseas aid) [MT's 'No' to Europe] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Education: MT to Hugh Thomas (Lords amendments to Education Reform Bill) ["the amendment did not provide a sound basis for the public funding of universities"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT to Chief Justice Burger (thanks) [gift of books on Benjamin Franklin] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Brooke memo for MT ("Summer Strategy Survey") ["confirms the great strength of our position ... Our record on the economy underpins our political strength"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, economy, Ashdown, MT's visit to Australia, European Community) [Lawson says inflation may rise but economy is booming and best is yet to come] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT to Pieter Willem Botha (Nelson Mandela's release) [without "visible, concrete progress on reform", MT's task in influencing the new US administration will be made more difficult] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT to Helmut Kohl (Nelson Mandela's release) ["we are approaching a watershed... without visible and concrete progress on reform and towards peace, it will be very difficult to carry much conviction with the Americans"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT to John Reid (Iranair flight 655) [support for UN efforts to bring about a ceasefire] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Aug 3 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks following walkabout in Melbourne (IRA demonstration) |
|
|
88 Aug 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Australia: MT letter to Sergeant Potter (thanks for good work) ["I am sorry that you had to deal with rather a crush at one point but we got there and I enjoyed my visit very much"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Aug 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Australia: MT to Sergeant Potter (thanks) [good work looking after her on Melbourne trip] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Aug 4 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for Channel 10 (Sydney) |
|
|
88 Aug 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Australia: MT to John Coles (thanks) ["the visit to Austrlia was absolutely splendid... we succeeded in most of what we set out to achieve"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Cleveland report, share prices, IRA cash flow, HOTOL research programme] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Bush chooses running mate, rail fares, US economy, UK economy, nurses' pay] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Zia's death, nurses' pay, inner city schools, TV content, Australian Governor-General] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Zia's death, Dan Quayle under file, Botha hedging over Mandela release, transport] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [civil service, Bush campaign, pay settlements, inflation, Labour's election chances] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [IRA coach bombing, Notting Hill Carnival terror campaign, Stock Exchange abuses, chemical spillages] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [IRA coach bombing, Bush campaign, alcohol laws, student loans] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Royal Navy recruiting officer killed by IRA, review of measures against IRA, Northern Ireland council elections, Piper Alpha disaster, nurses' pay, alcohol laws] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [plans to combat IRA violence, Iran-Iraq war, workfare scheme, interest rates, Irish border, North Sea safety, satellite TV] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [new security measures, Tyrone arrests, IRA weapons, Barlow Clowes victims, Sudan, Piper Alpha] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [emergency action to cool the economy, mortgage rates to rise, international aid, IRA extradition, spy ring, olive branch to NUT] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with Daily Express") [questions on: the economy, Northern Ireland, health service review, mortgage tax relief, public spending] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas draft for MT ("The Future of Europe") ["We have not embarked on the business of throwing back the frontiers of the state at home only to have a super nation state getting ready to exercise a new dominance"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas notes (MT's speech on Europe) [fragments] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas letter to Charles Powell (MT's speech on Europe) [minor comments] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Lawson's 'keep your nerve' message, Jaguar job losses, IRA extradition, Terry Waite imprisonment, P&O compensation] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 28 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Post Office strike threat, measures against the IRA, IRA extradition, Lawson's economic policies] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell first draft for MT ("Version 1") [42pp, not annotated by MT] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell first draft for MT ("Version 2") [56pp, slightly annotated by MT] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Speech on Europe") ["opportunity to set out your views on Europe's future, focussing mainly but not exclusively on the EC"; encloses "very much a first draft"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Speech to Scottish CBI: 8 September") [possible theme of Scottish business achievement] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with USA Today") [questions on: US-UK relations, US-USSR relations, Reagan's legacy, EC, Northern Ireland] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Aug 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks) [encloses draft, drawing on his ideas, invites further comment] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Cabinet Office minute to Charles Powell (comments on first draft) ["well on the way to a memorable production"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Arts: Robin Catford minute for MT ("Visit to National Gallery, 5 September 1988") ["good opportunity to secure the loan of some further pictures for the Pillared Room"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Speech in Bruges") [requests section on CAP, National Consumer Council report bringing it to the fore again] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health: MT to Neil Kinnock (nurses' pay) [government expects health authorities to carry out regrading according to the agreement between the two sides] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Arts: MT letter to Jacob Rothschild (thank you) [return visit to see Pillared Room "new look"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Scottish CBI Speech") [contributions and comments on previous drafts, recommended inclusion of comments on business rates] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: John Kerr to Patrick Wright (state of play on MT Bruges speech) [CDP “reasonably responsive” to view that too controversial a speech would meet rebuttals] |
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88 Sep 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech in Bruges") [information on the venue] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Secretary of State for Defence PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech on Europe") [comments on defence section] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry PS letter to No.10 (Young in New Zealand) [cannot comment till his return] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Speech on Europe") [second draft, taking on board SOME of the comments received; "result is to tone down the original a bit, but not too much"; MT annotations on draft] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech on Europe") [Young "endorses the revised version proposed by the Foreign Secretary"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Chancellor of the Exchequer's PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Bruges speech: 20 September") ["generally very good"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Northern Ireland: MT to Kenneth Bloomfield (IRA attack on his house) ["it must have been a most terrifying experience for you all"] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Sep 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Whittingdale minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's speech on Europe") [Conservative MEPs likely to react badly to the speech; Robin Harris thoughts on the draft] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European speech") [revised second draft, following 4 hour speechwriting session, with MT annotations] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Alan Clark minute for MT ("The Bruges Speech") ["The speech is of crucial importance .... will signal our attitudes todevelopments in the Community both micro and macro over the next decade"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Speech in Bruges") [revised second draft, MT "now broadly content with it", comment by 1500 16 Spt] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell/MT draft (second draft as circulated to departments for further comment) [revised second draft incorporating MT comments, labelled "Version III"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Spain: Charles Powell briefing ("Visit to Spain: Interviews") [points to make: significance of MT's visit, British tourism, closer co-operation; Gibraltar will be a difficult issue] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview for 'Chegwin Checks It Out'") [topics: politicians' views on children, education, foreign policy] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Northern Ireland: MT to Mrs Perfect (IRA killed her son) ["everything possible will be done to try and restore peace and stability"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("Bruges speech") ["a very few suggestions"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Bruges Speech") [autocue] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Minister of Agriculture APS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech in Bruges") [comments] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Minister of Defence PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech in Bruges") [comments] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Chancellor of the Exchequer's PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Bruges speech: 20 September") [further comments; No.10 annotates accepting amendments on monetary matters] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Speech in Bruges") [suggestions on Powell's second draft] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech in Bruges") [further comments] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell/MT draft (final draft for translation and autocue) [MT cuts] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: MT speaking text (69pp set out for autocue) [late additions in pen] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 20 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech") |
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88 Sep 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: Morris minute for Guise (Lawson comments on second draft of Royal Society speech) [sharply rejects world fuel levy proposal; copy of draft] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT (Bruges Speech) [hopes she will read two good articles about the speech in The Economist] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: MT letter to the Rector of the College of Europe (thanks for invitation to speak) ["hope that my remarks will initiate a constructive debate about the European Community's future course"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: MT letter to UKA Brussels (thanks for hospitality) ["I get rather depressed about Europe's future when I listen to Leo Tindemans' federalist views: but I hope we managed to get across some points to the others."] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Charles Powell briefing (New York Times interview) [points to make: freedom is on the move, US economic and military policies, Northern Ireland, Poland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Neil Kinnock (uprating of pensions) [review will be carried out] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Rector of the College of Europe (invite to deliver address) [hopes her remarks will "initiate a constructive debate about the European Community's future course"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Jacques Poos (visit to Luxembourg) [hopes to build on the understanding reached on the single market and EC financial issues] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT to Jacques Santer (visit to Luxembourg) [hopes to "work together to see that the Community reaches sensible conclusions which genuinely widen opportunities for business"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT to Richard Branson (hot air balloon flight plans) [inviting a Russian cosmonaut to participate would "not only symbolise the new possibilities opening up, but possibly encourage others on both sides to come forward with their own... ideas"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Sep 27 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the Royal Society (climate change) |
|
|
88 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Arts: Charles Powell minute for MT (phone conversation with Lord Carrington) [plotting to secure loan of Turner for No.10 from Evelyn de Rothschild] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Northern Ireland: MT to Ken Livingstone (allegations against Colin Wallace) [denies Livingstone's claims, asks that any evidence be handed over to the authorities] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Sep 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT to Raisa Gorbachev (MT's recent events) ["been following recent developments in your country very closely and are as always impressed by the courage and determination of the General Secretary"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: MT draft section for conference speech ('Environment') [roots concern for the environment in Conservative values] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: MT draft section for conference speech ("Materialism - The Community") ["The Japanese refer to it as our economic miracle / and who are we to argue?"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
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88 Oct 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: MT draft section ?for conference speech (Europe) ["To suppress nationhood would be damaging & would hinder progress"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European Community: Extension of Commission powers and competence") [need to "be prepared to 'terrorise' the Commission politically on the lines of the Bruges speech"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour conference comment) [Ron Todd speech, Kinnock's position] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news) [interest rates, mortgage tax relief, Rover/BAe, Heysel stadium disaster, Barlow-Clowes report, IRA media interviews] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, South Africa) [higher interest rates, Lawson's tax plans, Star Chamber, nurses' pay, Barlow-Clowes report, South Africa rugby boards] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: Charles Powell minute ("Prime Minister's Interview with 'Polityka'") [MT's approved answers to questions on: electoral successes, changes over last 10 years, economic transformation, trade unions, Thatcherism] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Oct 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Public spending: John Moore letter to MT (thanks for her help resolving spending quarrel) ["You were right to say I was letting myself get a little trapped in a departmental view!"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Princess of Wales) [curbs on IRA interviews, Sinn Fein propaganda campaign, Labour attack on government's handling of economy, Lawson's position on economy, Diana's comments on family life] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Financial services: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation ("Minutes of the Trade and Industry Backbench Committee meeting") [Barlow Clowes collapse "the most serious financial matter" DTI "had dealt with for many years"] [released Jul 2018] |
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|
88 Oct 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Broadcasting ban) [criticism of ban on broadcasting by terrorist organisations, BBC's Gerry Adams interview, government spending, European rebuttal to Bruges speech] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Northern Ireland: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Conservative backbench Home Affairs committee) [concern about ban on IRA interviews] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, child benefit, economy, environment, East-West relations) [Conservatives' poll lead, Irish churches, Italian ship collision, child benefit freeze, council houses, Barlow-Clowes, British Rail privatisation] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Interview with The Times") [issues to mention: environment, Europe, MT's style] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Financial services: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Trade and Industry Backbench Committee meeting) [discussion of FIMBRA: "setting up a lifeboat is delicate"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Cranley Onslow) [child benefit, Barlow Clowes, NHS spending] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Hordern-Sheldon) [Comptroller and Auditor General pay] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Green Paper on legal professionalism, child benefit, public spending, broadcast ban, politics, East-West relations, defence) [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Commons, MT's Times interview, MT's visit to FT, legal professionalism, merger policy) [MT's intention to stay on for fourth term] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, MT's Times interview, GCHQ, media, Soviet Union) [claims that the government is 'cheating' over social security] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security (and leak), television, MT's Hebrew University speech, Royal Ordnance, NATO/defence, visit to Poland, East-West relations) [Moore felt to have done well presenting social security uprating] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute (interview with Scotland on Sunday) [points to make: interest in Scotland, explain policies vigorously, devolve responsibility at community level] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Oct 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Poland, health charges, North/South) [Autumn Statement, NHS funding, economic performance, Labour constitution and policies, MT's visit to Poland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health policy: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Conservative backbench Finance committee) [Chancellor attended; concerns about "increases to NHS preventing a fundamental review"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, leak, eye/teeth charges, MT's visit to Poland, environment) [health charge rebels go home empty handed] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Autumn Statement, MT's visit to Poland) [boost for NHS spending, worries over inflation] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Poland: Ingham minute for MT ("The Media on Poland") ["These past four days ... have been somewhat unreal in media terms"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Poland: Charles Powell minute for MT (leading articles on her visit to Poland) [praise "from some unlikely quarters"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Pensions, MT's visit to Poland, Broadcasting White Paper) [row over suggestion that Lawson mooted means testing pensioners' benefits] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT (Meeting with Lord Goold) [to discuss Goold's position as party chair in Scotland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Broadcasting White Paper, pensioners, MT's visit to Poland) [warm welcome for increasing TV choice, Lawson seen to have done u-turn over means testing pensioners' benefits] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Presidential election, Chancellor's briefings, health/welfare, broadcasting, education, industry) [Bush wins easily, Labour MPs try to make a 'Lawsongate' out of briefings] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, President, students, soccer, economy) [Cabinet to decide whether Lawson should face censure motion over meeting with Sunday Lobby] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, King's Cross report, Chancellor's briefing, industry) [shock SNP victory over Labour in Govan by-election] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("David Frost") [MT should reconsider giving interview] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute for MT ("David Frost") ["I very much hope you will reconsider giving David Frost an interview for TV-am"; MT insists: "it is Bruce Gyngell that I am really supporting"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, nurses, Chancellor's briefing, MT's visit to USA, law and order, Northern Ireland) [nurses' grading, pressure on Lawson] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's speech, Gorbachev visit, MT's US visit, Washington, Chancellor's briefing) [MT's comments on freedom, red carpet for Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT draft speech for White House Banquet (farewell to Reagan) [remembers 1981 - "you told me ... that for all our economic difficulties, we would be home safe and soon enough"; cuts Churchill story] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UKA Washington telegram 2796 to FCO (0430Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington: 15-17 November: A First Assessment") ["a state visit in all but name ... we love to be loved"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen's Speech, Queen's visit to Russia, environment, business in community, law and order) [controversity over whether HM should accept invitation of state visit from Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Robin Day and David Frost") [need to make arrangements for interviews] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Whitelaw letter to MT (thanks for invitation to Eve of Session dinner) [second year of Parliament tricky; her team stronger individually than a year ago] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Barbara Bush letter to MT (pleasure at meeting again) [remembers MT's first visit in 1981; last visit "just puts the icing on the cake for this superb President"; George W. and Laura Bush moving to Dallas] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Security service bill, Queen's Speech, nurses, USA, Middle East) [likely opposition to water privatisation] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with 'She' magazine") [questions about: working women, pensions, national debt, environment] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen's Speech, the Queen, Canada) [friction with HM over government policy, government cannot be accused of running out of steam] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: FCO to No.10 ("Request for an Interview with the Prime Minister from the Editor of 'Beeld'") [opportunity for MT to set out opposition to apartheid and need for SAG to grasp the reform nettle] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Security Service, environment summit, the Queen) [Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, water privatisation, Northern Ireland, student demonstration, East/West relations) [Joe Haines attacks MT as the 'Great Dictator'] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with Beeld") [arrangements] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, nurses, Ryan extradition, law and order, France) [Labour accuses Lawson of deception over trade deficit and rise in interest rates] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, Arafat, nurses, economy) [MT 'furious' over Patrick Ryan affair] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor, IRA - Ireland/Belgium - EuroCourt, Euro Council, NHS, East-West) [government majority in economic debate, MT's relationship with Lawson] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Conservative backench Environment committee) [Nick Ridley attended; NRA and water privatisation] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Transport: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Transport backbench committee meeting) [British Rail: discussion of supply of trains, privatisation, Channel Tunnel] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA, MT's visit to Pyke Centre, MT's visit to France, Official Secrets Act) [Ryan extradition papers contained minor defects] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
India: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with The Times of India") [likely topics: Sikh terrorism/Sinn Fein, British aid to India] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Frank Field) [development of the MDC in the Wirral, ecclesiastical issues, workplace schemes] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (New Boys dinner) [jottings on list of attendees] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Currie and eggs, Ireland, Gorbachev, trade) [Haughey gives impression Ryan won't be extradited] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Michael Bates minute ("Interview with 'US News and World Report'") [questions on: new US administration, East/West relations, Middle East, South Africa] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Tebbit meeting) [personal protection, his plans for a book] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Curried eggs, ECHR and Ryan, Employment White Paper, East-West) [It's all eggs today] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["Curried eggs not so hot today"], Labour Party, Gorbachev visit to UK, Gorbachev in USA, Curried Eggs, Transport) [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["Eggs off the boil but not quite off the menu"], Gorbachev, eggs, Labour Party, politics, your visit to Asda, water privatisation, economy) [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news) [MT underlined passages on state of the NHS and schools, IRA broadcast interviews, lobby system, terrorists shoot down US plane] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 10 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, defence, EC) [continued fall out from Currie's egg comments] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, rail comment, media, GATT, EC) [Clapham rail crash and Armenian earthquake dominate] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-PPSs) [longer term problems, NHS review, selling privatisation, problematic county councils, agriculture] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA, Clapham crash, Arafat) [row over Ireland's failure to extradite Ryan, Clapham crash still dominates news] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, Ryan, Clapham crash, East-West) [continued coverage of rail crash] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with 'Blue Peter'") [to help with their appeal for money for Kampuchea] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, defence, law and order, health, Ireland, Middle East) [compensation for egg producers widely canvassed] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [criticisms of party organisation in Scotland, lack of "drive or enthusiasm" in Scottish Central Office] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 18 Su |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Bush family card ("Merry Christmas from the Bush Family 1988") [family photos in Maine] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Kinnock broadcast, research and development) [Kinnock does not rule out proportional representation but rejects electoral pacts] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, police murder, eggs, Armenian earthquake, Secrets bill) [police death in Coventry bank raid] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, crime, OECD report, Secrets bill) [calls for Currie to be reinstated] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute (Interview with David Frost) [questions on: British politics, environment, Northern Ireland, "kinder, gentler Britain", foreign policy] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, aircrash treatment, eggs, transport, West Germany) [258 passengers die as jet falls on Lockerbie] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's visit to Lockerbie, other news) [extensive coverage of Pan Am disaster, assumption it was caused by a bomb] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham and Powell briefing for MT ("Your interview with David Frost") ["I would expect him to come over all smarmy at the end"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Dec 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Lockerbie, home loans) [rise in interest rates main domestic story; Lockerbie tragedy main international issue] [released Jul 2018] |
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