Archive

1980 Apr 2 - 1981 Oct 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/484
Home affairs (Civil disorder: riots in Brixton, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester & London; Prime Minister's meetings with community leaders; anti-riot equipment for the police; Urban Programme; implications for local authority spending)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 247
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80 Apr 2 Wed Riots: No.10 Duty Clerk minute to MT ("Riot in Bristol") [initial report on Bristol riot] [declassified 2014]
80 Apr 28 Mon Riots: Scholar minute to MT ("Mr Whitelaw's Statement on Bristol") [report of Whitelaw's Commons statement on Bristol riot] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 13 Mon Riots: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Pym-Jopling) ["Brixton: Inquiry"] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 27 Mon Riots: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Review of Potential for Civil Disturbance in 1981") [report "indicates that further violence in the ethnic minority communities is likely"] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 6 Mon Riots: Anthony Steen MP letter to Whitelaw (Whitelaw's statement on Liverpool riots) [Whitelaw's position insufficiently strong] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 10 Fri Riots: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Southall community leaders) [Southall race riot] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 11 Sat Riots: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Metropolitan Police) [Brixton riots] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 11 Sat Riots: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Whitelaw, MT-Percival) [Manchester and Liverpool riots: Whitelaw's visits to Manchester and Liverpool, Percival's visit to Toxteth] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 13 Mon Riots: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chief Constable of Merseyside) [Toxeth riots] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 13 Mon Riots: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Liverpool and Merseyside councillors) [Toxeth riots] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 13 Mon Riots: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Liverpool community leaders) [Toxeth riots] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 13 Mon Riots: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Archbishop of Liverpool-Bishop of Warrington) [Toxeth riots] [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 15 Wed Riots: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Civil Unrest") [declassified 2014]
81 Jul 15 Wed Riots: Pattison minute to MT (Whitelaw's Commons statement on police equipment and riots) [declassified 2014]
81 Aug 7 Fri Riots: No.10 minute to MT ("Local Authority Expenditure Arising from Civil Disturbances") [declassified 2014]