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PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Working Paper on the Public Service”) [“preserving continuity”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: FCO telegram to UKE Madrid ("Visit of HMS Invincible to Gibraltar") ["implications for our dealings with the Spaniards over Gibraltar, for Rapier, and for the pattern of future ships' visits"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Ian Beesley, John Redwood, Robin Butler) [improving efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 353 to FCO (0310Z) ("Shuweifat Gap") [MNF representations to forestall Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram 122 to FCO (1530Z) ("Lebanon: Shuweifat Gap") [UK calls on France to support its opposition to Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 54 to FCO (1200Z) ("Lebanon") [rumours of imminent Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: John Coles minute to MT (Lebanon: risk to UK contingent of Multinational Forces) [possibly imminent Lebanese military action; MT to be consulted if possible, while in Hungary, over any major changes in policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT (Social Security Policy Reviews) [housing benefit; supplementary benefit: policy review teams: leadership & strategies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lords Thomas, Harris, Vaizey) ["Vaizey/CPS Study of Welfare State"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [review appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Publication of Public Expenditure White Paper") [debate to happen first] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Fisheries Ministers: 31 January 1984") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["we can now only agree to differ... too late to change the figures in the White Paper"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UK Position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [amended version of FCO paper sent under cover of Howe minute to MT of 27 Jan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Craxi; Steel Council; Tebbit talks on EC aid for British Steel; EC fishing quotas for 1984; Milk Marketing Board breach of EC regulations; French restrictions on food imports; EC Court judgement on poultry imports; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Cartledge notes for MT (‘Thoughts’) [shared aspiration for peace] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT personal minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy”) [report preparation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Space: MT letter to Reagan (manned space station programme) [“an exciting development”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“London Economic Summit”) [decisions on: arrivals; meet and greets; lunches/dinners; photocalls and press conferences] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Coles minute to FCO (“European Inward Visits”) [planning] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies transcript of meeting (speeches at AGM, Hyde Park Hotel) [Thomas, Seton-Watson, Urban, Cottrell, Vinson, Cayzer, MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Robert Armstrong to MT (OD(EM) Meeting: British Military Involvement in the Gulf Region) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Julian Amery letter to MT (UK relations with South Africa & situation report) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (Deployment of British Gound Forces to the Gulf area) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling minute to MT (“Milk Marketing Arrangements and Threatened FEOGA Disallowance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing”) [arguments against raising milk prices] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing”) [price control, increases in 1984, handling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“Discussion in E(A)”) [asking for help in handling of the discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to MT (“Technological Aspects of the A320 and V2500 Decisions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“The Airbus A320 Project”) [British participation, launch aid, implications] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Solicitor General letter to MT ("Defective Housing") [private sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 375 to FCO (2340Z) ("Shuweifat Gap") [UK concerns relayed to US regarding risk to MNF should Lebanese attempt to close Gap] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe minute to MT ("Lebanon: The Next Steps") [strategy paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Social Security housing benefit and supplementary benefit policy reviews) [appointments of policy review team leaders; Lord Vaizey reivew of benefits system] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Howe minute to Keith Joseph ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["my own anxieties that the review would inevitably be seen as evidence that the UK intended to withdraw from CERN"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 374 to FCO (2330Z) ("The Presidential Race: 1984") [assessment of contenders] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Follow Up Work to the Report on Essential Defence Technologies") [advice on methodology & focus] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (Argentina's policy towards talks with the UK over the Falklands) ["Argentina will never give up her legitimate rights over the Falklands"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Butler minute to Catford (the Falkland Islands records) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Ibbs minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [need for proper scrutiny] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute ("Ratios of Expenditure to GDP") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Angola: the Prime Minister's message to President Dos Santos") [record of UK ambassador's meeting with President: release of British prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Structure of the Nuclear Industry") ["no insuperable obstacles to a greater measure of competition and private ownership in the longer-term"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Appointments to the EC Commission") [press line on British candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to Shultz ("British Propose Direct Talks With Argentines") [published 2015]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aerospace: Michael Alison minute for MT (“Launch aid for the Air Bus 320”) [backbench Conservative support for] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn (“Economic Summit 1984”) [ground rules for communication with the press] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Peter Rees minute for Paul Channon (“Credit for Libya”) [MT wonders if Germans could be persuaded not to offer credit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food minute to No.10 (“Milk Marketing Arrangements and Threatened FEOGA Disallowance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing our European Community Partners”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong: 8th round of talks”) [MT concerned] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Indian Request for Advice on Plans for the Removal of Dissident Sikhs from the Golden Temple") ["our proposed response"; SAS involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Sir Anthony Parsons note to Coles (Palestine: accounts of phone calls with King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 380 to FCO (0125Z) ("Shuweifat Gap") [US concerns relayed to Lebanese] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 734 2 to Budaputt (1710Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Redwood minute to MT ("Crime") [preventing and fighting crime, prisons, sentencing, and public perception of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Tim Lankester minute to MT ("Family Practitioner Services H Committee") [Binder Hamlyn Report: handling of publication, following Govt row with BMA over deputising services] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Alick Buchanan-Smith ("BP Rigg at Scott Lithgow") [BP threat to cancel contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Butler minute to MT (proposed Nissan plant in the UK) [gift to MT from Nissan: Butler advises against personal acceptance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (an article in New Society: "Argentina and Democracy") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Nigel Lawson (capital and public expenditure) [need for "cost-effective modernisation, maintenance and replacement of the public services capital stock"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Agricultural Structures") [legal basis for payment of grants to hill farmers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("1984/85 Agricultural Prices and Related Issues") [MT requests neutral stance on the issue of French/German dispute over positive monetary compensatory amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("EC Expenditure Problem and Control of UK Public Expenditure") ["It is right that we should have an effective mechanism... [but not if this] jeopardises the proper exploitation of Community programmes. ESPRIT is a case in point"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (US Treasury) US: Department of the Treasury memcon (Leigh-Pemberton-Regan meeting, with officials) [reform of US & UK securities markets] [declassified 2010]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Michael Alison minute for Robin Butler ([Monday] “Lunches for cabinet colleagues”) [suggests new format] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: John Houston note to Alison Ward (“Banana Skins Before Easter”) [possible media problems] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: DES special adviser note (“‘Coming events’”) [“A continuous banana skin is the future of the ILEA”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Chris Mockler note to Alison Ward (“Department of the Environment: Important/Sensitive Issues”) [Liverpool, Rates Bill, GLC abolition, housing] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Michael Portillo memo to Alison Ward (“Treasury Calendar Until Easter”) [“we wish the Budget to arrive against a background of a clear blue sky.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transport: Nick Ridley letter to William Whitelaw (“Future Events Which Will Require Careful Handling”) [“a dock strike looks very likely”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Robin Harris note to Alison Ward (impact of announcements or decisions) [“the highest public profile problems are often the least predictable”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Notes for MT (“Call on Prime Minister Lázár”) [talking points on notecard] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Turnbull notes for MT (“Lunch at British Embassy: Note for Remarks”) [economic goals of her government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office minute (“Note for the record”) [approach from Observer on story re: Oman/Cementation this weekend] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry record of conversation (MT-Lázár tête-à-tête) [discussion “really necessary”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Notes for MT (“Call on Mr Kádár”) [talking points on notecard] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry record of conversation (MT-Kádár tête-à-tête) [East-West relations] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jopling note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 4 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 5 (Economic Strategy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 6 (Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 7 (Capital and Current Expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Prime Minister’s 2nd Dinner”) [proposed locations: suggests National Portrait Gallery because Mitterand would find “the vibrations at Apsley House distasteful”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit 1984: Commemorative Stamp”) [Post Office could produce a commemorative stamp, rather than a complete series] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (Lord Nugent’s proposals for revision of the Obscene Publication Act 1959) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: FCO minute for Coles (“Argentina: Debt Rescheduling”) [UK line for Paris Club meeting] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& others) (Lebanon: redeployment of US marines offshore) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Lázár of Hungary) [plenary session: Hungary-UK relations, East-West, disarmament, Hungary-EC negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Lázár of Hungary) [Hungary-UK relations, Hungary-EC negotiations, East-West] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-First Secretary Kádár) [UK-Hungarian bilateral relations, East-West relations, arms control, communism and the USSR] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Losonczi) [East-West relations, arms control, economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Environment Secretary minute to MT (the A320 project: British participation) [his comments and suggestions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Hungary: Press office minute (UK press coverage of visit & other stories) [“Lengthy coverage of visit on BBC”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 4 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 62 to FCO (1325Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report/record of conversation with Lebanese Foreign Minister] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Hungary: Ingham minute for MT (“Your Press Conference”) [“first step towards building up a dialogue”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 4 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Hungary: COI telegram to UKE Budapest (UK press coverage of visit & other stories) [Saturday first editions] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 5 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO telegram to UKE Budapest (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary, 2-4 February”) [account] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to No.10 ("Overdue Scrutiny Decisions") [MT "asked... for a list of important scrutinies where recommendations have not been implemented... The most urgent are those in the NHS"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 63 to FCO (0920Z) ("Lebanon") [resignation of Government] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") [situation report; review of the role of the Multinational Forces] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Heseltine minute to MT ("Lebanon: The Next Steps") [advises military withdrawal & requests urgent meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: David Barclay minute to MT ("Social Services Management") [opposition from Treasury & Dept Environment to Fowler proposal for Inspectorate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Shipbuilding - EC notification of UK shipbuilding aid) [temporary extension of intervention fund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Tim Flesher ("QL Legislative Programme") [gas privatisation; public transport; private rented housing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (BT flotation: wider share ownership) [memo from Barclays Bank; amendment to Telecommunications Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Barry Jones MP (British Aerospace Chester Division: launch aid for the A320 Airbus) [Govt decision on launch aid; BA decision on regional allocation; Govt investment in Deeside area] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to Tebbit PS ("ESPRIT") [record of conversation: Robin Nicholson, Yves Farges: UK position on ESPRIT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Parliament's Treaty on European Union") [imminent debate/vote in European Parliament; line to take in event of majority vote for Treaty] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Fisheries Limits") [a draft reply to the Falkland Islands Government representative] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT ("Delays in Commissioning of Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs)") [Central Electricity Generating Board follow-up report on reasons] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC/France: John Coles note for Michael Alison (agricultural violence) [“talk of a ‘new peasants war’ … was widely exaggerated”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade & Industry: Michael Dobbs letter to Alison Ward (DTI banana skins) [Jaguar, BL trucks, British Shipbuilders, BSC, Post Office, DBS, US trade] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute (year ahead) [list of events, commitments, publications, etc] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Hungary: Ingham letter to UKE Budapest (thanks for help with press arrangements) [PM “seems to have returned in some triumph”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Hungary: Ingham letter to UKA Budapest (thanks for help) [PM “has returned in some triumph, according to the British media”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with Monsieur Dumas, 8 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Redwood minute to MT ("Long Term Tax Strategy: Capital Taxes") [urges "radical change" to capital taxes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Reagan telegram to MT (Lebanon) [plan for phased redeployment of US element in MNF to ships offshore] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong (“Northern Irland: The Forum”) [“affairs in the Forum had taken a turn for the better”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to NIO (“New Ireland Forum”) [progress on draft report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Treasury paper (London Summit) [Walters comments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lord Nugent, Lord Halsbury) [revision of the Obscene Publication Act 1959] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Folger minute to No.10 (“5% Growth: Mr. Nightingale of Hoare Govett”) [economy 'feverish'; 'clampdown' predicted in spring] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Budapest to FCO (“Hungarian Press and TV Coverage of the Prime Minister’s Visit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Budapest telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (McMahon, Middleton) [Lloyds insurance market] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram 73 to FCO (1330Z) ("Lebanon") [Multinational Forces deployment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram 150 to FCO (1230Z) ("Lebanon") [Multinational Forces] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 71 to FCO (1440Z) ("Lebanon") [US withdrawal; 17 May agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 70 to FCO (1215Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report; advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Reagan (1135Z) (Lebanon: redeployment of US marines) [withdrawal: "we shall similarly re-deploy our own contingent"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Reagan (2040Z) (Lebanon: redeployment of UK marines) [US to delay withdrawal: "I am sorry that we cannot meet your request to "go into neutral" but frankly it came too late"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT draft message to President Reagan (Lebanon: redeployment of US marines) [withdrawal: public presentation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: David Barclay note to John Coles (Lebanon: redeployment of US marines) [update] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Luce, Bramall, Acland) ["Lebanon: MNF"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Luce, Bramall, Leahy) ["The Lebanon": withdrawal of US & UK contingents of MNF] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Luce, Bramall, Leahy) ["Lebanon": withdrawal of US & UK contingents of MNF] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon/MNF") [redeployment of US & UK contingents of MNF; evacuation of British citizens] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") [message from Lebanese Foreign Minister] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Reagan message to MT (0607Z) (Multinational Forces in Lebanon: role & strategy) [redeployment of US marines from Beirut airport back to ships offshore] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Australian Bicentenary 1988") [coordinating Britain's role in celebrations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (Fowler, MT) [Social Security] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Katsuji Kawamata, Chairman of Nissan (proposed Nissan plant in the UK) [MT pleased that Heads of Agreement have been signed; thanks for gift] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of the President of Serbia") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin (capital stock) [how to "avoid storing up trouble for ourselves"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to Howe PS (Common Agricultural Policy: reform & price-fixing negotiations) [German Minister of Agriculture visit to UK] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Liaison Committee (agenda) [plus brief notes by Sherbourne] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 429 to FCO (0050Z) (“Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF)”) [Eagleburger “utterly weary and dejected. … People seem to have run out of ideas and to be at the end of their tether”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 430 to FCO (0052Z) (“Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF)”) [text of Reagan's statement] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: UKMIS New York telegram 130 to FCO (0020Z) (“Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF)”) [Mitterrand’s attitude] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Deputy Foreign Ministry report to Cabinet (MT visit) [“a certain degree of courage”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Taxation: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Cockfield) ["Tax Reform Strategy"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT telegram to President Reagan (Lebanon) [MNF: “now virtually impossible for our contingent to play a useful role”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT telegram to Reagan (Lebanon) [“sorry that we cannot meet your request to ‘go into neutral’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin PS minute to No.10 (Liverpool finances) [“Members of the Labour Group continue to threaten to rate inadequately in 1984/85”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Economic Summits and Australia”) [“the Australians have tried it on before”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [further drawings should be conditional on IMF programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT letter to Shaikh Zaid (British defence assistance to the UAE) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Draft Circulars on Green Belts and Land for Housing") [revised drafts; press release] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Coles letter to Sir Anthony Parsons (contacts with King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan) [possible MT visit to Egypt] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 132 to FCO (1749Z) ("Lebanon") [Margetson, Perez de Cuellar: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram 80 to FCO (1800Z) ("Lebanon") [Spadolini statement on Italian military withdrawal & UN protection for Sabra/Chatila refugee camps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram 160 to FCO (1245Z) ("Lebanon/MNF") [future of French deployment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 73 to FCO (1800Z) ("Lebanon") [reports of US shelling/loss of civilian lives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 77 to FCO (1300Z) ("British Community") [evacuation plans] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 82 to FCO (1915Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 73 to FCO (0140Z) ("Withdrawal of BRITFORLEB") [press statement; exchange of messages with Lebanese Foreign Minister] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Reagan message to MT (0250Z) (Lebanon) [UK withdrawal; US/Syrian exchanges of fire; King Hussein/Mubarak visits to US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Luce, Leahy) [military redeployment; evacuation of British citizens] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 259 to UKE Washington (1215Z) ("Lebanon") [17 May Agreement; Gemayel's position; US military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 57 to UKMIS New York (1300Z) ("Lebanon") [UN involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 116 to UKE Paris (1500Z) ("Lebanon") [redeployment of UK contingent of the Multinational Forces] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO draft telegram to UKE Washington & others ("Lebanon/MNF") [withdrawal of UK force to safer position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Gowrie minute to Tom King ("YTS in the Civil Service") ["glad of your clear affirmation that we are not debarred by YTS rules from going ahead without local union support"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("ESPRIT") ["German proposal for an "envelope" of about 600 mecu a year for R&D programmes"; "public expenditure handling of our contribution to the [ESPRIT] programme"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister González Márquez (Secretary-General of the Council of Europe) [nomination of Oreja] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: President Nimeiri of DR Sudan letter to MT (UK contributions to the International Development Association) [IDA 7: funding negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: MT letter to Spanish PM González (nomination of Don Marcelino Oreja for Secretary-General, Council of Europe) [welcomes Spain’s desire to participate, notes all party support for candidature] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Robin Ibbs ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [wants a policy and programme review, not an "efficiency" exercise] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Current and Capital Expenditure C(84) 7") [sales of assets, defence equipment, nationalised industries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in Longer Term (C(84) 6)") [difficult for ministers to "discuss hypothetical figures or measures" without "being misrepresented"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Cabinet: Budget Background") ["dangerous to assume that you can judge a suitable overall level of public capital expenditure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Peter Rees (Kenyan Navy patrol boat contract: Vosper Thorneycroft UK Ltd application for ECGD for credit) [the case for approving the application] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe report on post-Stuttgart talks with Genscher & Dumas; Agriculture/Finance/Social Affairs Councils; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Keith Britto letter to Stephen Sherbourne (“Long Term Calendar of Forthcoming Events”) [events, releases] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Robin Butler note for Michael Alison (“Lunches for Cabinet Colleagues”) [rejects changes to format] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Press office bulletin (statement for ‘on-the-record’ enquiries) [British Multinational Force in Lebanon being redeployed] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO (“Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF)”) [British contingent being redeployed; other governments urged to “consider adjusting their MNF presence”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (FCO assessment of MT visit) [“first high-level step towards the renewal of E-W dialogue”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Armstrong minute to No.10 (“Visit of President Mitterrand”) [his conversation with Attali] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Monsieur Dumas) [European Community issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Cabinet, public expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: George Younger minute for MT (“Competition Policy”) [work of the Sub-Committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(84) 5)") [public spending and borrowing, Medium Term Financial Strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Redwood minute to MT (PSBR, MTFS and taxation) [budget comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Parliamentary Affairs: The Political Levy") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: King minute to MT (the political levy: talks with the TUC) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: President Reagan telegram to MT (Lebanon) [hopes she can defer announcing redeployment of British contingent in MNF] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS (“Liverpool”) [“she feels there might well be circumstances in which the Government should stand aside right up to the breaking of a crisis”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Ministerial Group on Maritime Affairs”) [proposed membership, topics for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Nugent of Guildford letter to MT (Obscene Publications Act) [follow-up to conversation about draft Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne draft for MT (message to Carlton Club on Macmillan’s 90th birthday) [“It has been his breadth of spirit and strength of purpose which has helped create modern Britain”] [released 2014]
Text 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Lebanon: redeployment of US marines offshore) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT letter to Ian MacGregor (coal industry in Hungary: conversation with Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Prague to FCO (“Czechoslovak Press Comment on Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT letter to President Reagan (visit to Hungary) ["as far ahead as we can see we have to find a way of living side by side with the Communist system, repugnant as it is"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: public presentation of HMG’s position”) [MT: “very weak. It does look like a sell out”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 138 to FCO (0125Z) ("Lebanon") [French proposal to deploy UN force: MT irate that UK proposal of same was previously rejected] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 454 to FCO (1749Z) ("Lebanon") [US withdrawal & long-term policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 75 to FCO (1200Z) ("Lebanon") [Syria: situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 89 to FCO (1250Z) ("Lebanon") [UN presence: MT keen to see "controlled crossing of the green line" proposal followed up "urgently"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Reagan (1610Z) (Lebanon: military redeployment) ["any force... would put at risk current plans to evacuate Western nationals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 minute to MT ("Beirut") [progress report on evacuation of Western nationals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Cradock minute to No.10 ("Lebanon") [analysis/policy advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: David Steel MP letter to MT (Freedom of Information Campaign) [suggestion that Government has forbidden Civil Servants to communicate with FOI Campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Interconnect: Clause 45") [deletion from Telecommunications Bill so as "to make industrial disputes the concern of civil rather than criminal remedies... will help to counterbalance the hostile union reaction to our other proposals"; MT concerns] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Speaker of the House of Commons letter to Dale Campbell Savours MP (Parliamentary Questions) [protocol for declarations of interest] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Publication of Public Expenditure White Paper") [timeframe for publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Hailsham, Biffen, Heseltine, Fowler, Gowrie, Armstrong) ["TSRB Pensions"; Top Salaries Review Body: "all members of the TSRB groups would receive smaller pensions than they would have done if the rates payable from 1 January 1984 had been payable from 1 April 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Rees letter to Walker ("Combined Heat and Power Schemes for District Heating") ["If you consider that transitional support is essential to enable the Government to hand over the lead to the private sector, I would not stand in the way of your providing support of up to £0.5 million"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 6-7 February 1984") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: Mountfield minute for Michael Alison (“Visit to British Council, Paris Office, 7 February”) [“is the flagship of the Council's operations and I see no chance of torpedoing it”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (British reporting of MT visit) [extensive & positive] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT letters of thanks) [for help with visit] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 5th (Mr Harold Macmillan, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Economic Strategy, Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term, Public Spending on Capital Projects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 5th (Trade Union Political Levy, Economic Strategy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to President Reagan (Lebanon) [“will not make no announcement of permanent withdrawal without further consultation with you”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Alison record of conversation (MT meeting with John Hume) [New Ireland Forum, crime and unemployment rates, Sinn Fein] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: JIC report (“The Strategy of the Provisionals”) [aim “remains that of forcing the withdrawal of the British from Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: British Information Services letter to Robert Barzilay (Irish Northern Aid Committee) [“How can there be excuses for terrorism, in Northern Ireland or elsewhere”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit”) [handling of political questions at Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (Joint Circular on Sport and Recreation) [Jenkin/Joseph policy disagreement over terms and issuing of circular on joint recreation facilities; MT concerned about passage of rate-capping Bill if circular issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Peter Rees minute to MT (“Joint Circular on Sport and Recreation”) [“another example of Government exhorting local authorities to pursue desirable polices but denying them the resources to carry these out”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Turnbull (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [tough Bank of England line] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull note to MT (Chancellor now removing public sector bank deposits from £M3) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (Chancellor wishes to remove public sector bank deposits from £M3) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Privatisation of Jaguar") [options; recommendations; handling brief] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by King Hussein") [diary arrangement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Howe, Luce, Bramall) ["Lebanon": BRITFORLEB; Multinational Force; UN involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (evacuation of Australian staff) [thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Prior ("Harland and Wolff: Corporate Plan") [options for future of the shipyard] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") [British Shipbuilders' conditional agreement for sale of shipyard to Trafalgar House] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [British Shipbuilders' conditional agreement for sale of shipyard to Trafalgar House] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The DTI and Industrial Strategy") [recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Polygraph") [GCHQ pilot scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("LOA in Germany") ["The tone of... [your minute to the Prime Minister] suggests a mechanistic approach to LOA which I really cannot accept"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations 1984") [latest position; difference between Scottish and English negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("ESPRIT") [line to take on EC R&D] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Call by Monsieur Davignon on the Prime Minister") [Sheerness Steels's breaches of Article 58 quotas; EC Budget: UK's 1983 refunds; funding for ESPRIT/US dominance of IT market; new EC policies; Alphasteel, South Wales; candidates for next President of EC Commission; EC agreement on energy measures package; MT speaking note] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (Cabinet meeting) [arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne notes (Cabinet meeting) [“where we are”, “gaps”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (talks with Zhao Ziyang, Chinese officials) [“I believe they have a clear perception of what will be required”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia message to MT (thanks for assistance) [evacuation of Australian staff from Beirut] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food letter to Cabinet Office (enquiry into the leak of information to Greenpeace concerning the dumping of radioactive waste) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Short Bros") ["...possible major US contract..." mooted for discussion with Vice-President Bush during UK visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("INF/START merger") [feasibility study] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary Policy: Treasury briefing "Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: February [1984]" [released 2012]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Hugh Thomas minute for MT (“Conversation with Monsieur de Margerie” [French Ambassador]) [“He thought we were at a cross road.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Robin Harris note to Stephen Sherbourne (Long-term Public Expenditure Green Paper) [presentation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Tony Garner paper (“Strategy Paper: The Alliance Parties”) [“it will be easier to convince the electorate that the Alliance parties are dangerously incompetent, than that they are dangerously extreme”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (talk with FCO contact) [UK relations with Eastern Europe] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (‘Information’ on MT visit) [press communiqué?] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (meetings with other Eastern bloc ambassadors) [their views on MT visit] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Extract from Biffen Lobby Briefing (Biffen comments on Budget Cabinet: "no lively debate, just unctuous self-satisfaction") [Turnbull: "The Chancellor is angry"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: CRD briefing (“Debate on the Hennessy Report on the escape from the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland”) [the report and government action; contentious points; ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall draft record of conversation (No.10 meeting) [“A crucial precondition for any package of measures must be the Irish Government’s willingness - and ability - to deliver an acceptably formal and binding commitment to waive the Republic’s claim to the North”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note to MT (Volcker’s views on US economy) [article on deficit threat] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Butler minute to MT (Economic Summit) [draft discussion paper for personal representatives, proposed amendments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute for MT (“Nigerian Debt: Possible Further Coup”) [Turnbull: "valid up to a point", but don't permit toothless programme for fear of one] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong”) [working paper on constitutional arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing our European Community Partners”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Whitelaw) [pending legislation: potential problems] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Brittan PS letter to Jenkin (“Abolition Paving Bill”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow for President Andropov's Funeral: Hong Kong") [determined to cooperate to build on Chinese proposals, progress in talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Meeting with President Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan") [Soviet position on Afghanistan, Pakistan's nuclear programme, tensions with India] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Meeting with Mrs Gandhi, Prime Minister of India") [security situation, Indo-Pakistan relations, IDA 7, aid programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Rees PS minute to Howe PS ("Proposed Review of the BBC External Services") [review of efficiency and effectiveness] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 111 to FCO (0630Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow for President Andropov's Funeral: Japan") [visits, effects of Andropov's death, Nissan investment in Britain] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Rolls-Royce: Performance Related Bonus Scheme") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv telegram 37 to FCO (1410Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") [abrogation of 17 May agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 83 to FCO (1015Z) ("Lebanon") [Syria situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 118 to FCO (1445Z) ("Lebanon") [reconciliation government] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 119 to FCO (1500Z) ("Lebanon") ["prospects for UN involvement in Beirut"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: David Barclay draft telegram to John Coles, Prime Minister's Party ("Lebanon: MNF Coordinating Committee") [British representation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon Evacuation") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Tonga: King Tupou IV letter to MT (Stabisoil) [acknowledgement of MT letter] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 202 to FCO (1609Z) ("Central Committee Plenum: Foreign Policy") [Chernenko's election, Tikhonov speech on peaceful cooperation, military situation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 201 to FCO (1300Z) ("Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko") [background on Chernenko: "essentially a man of the party apparatus ... a far less impressive figure"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow 13/14 February East/West Relations") [need to restart arms control talks, need for political understanding, bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Middle East") [situation in Lebanon, Arab/Israel dispute, Iran/Iraq conflict] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Davignon) [Sheerness Steels's breaches of Article 58 quotas; EC Budget: addressing root problems and the issue of disposal of accumulated surpluses; funding for ESPRIT/US dominance of IT market; future of the EC/funding] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Efrem Yankelevich (medical treatment abroad for Mrs Elena Bonner-Sakharov) [outcome of UK Government's request to Soviet authorities] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Co-Chairs of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) [hope that MT can achieve breakthrough with new Soviet leadership] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tickell minute to PS Permanent Under-Secretary ("EMS and EMU") ["it is better to have a guiding hand from within rather than try to influence it from without"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Agriculture: Green Rates and Positive Monetary Compensatory Amounts") ["attached extract... does set out rather precisely how this question is viewed in the Commission and in the seven member states which do not have positive monetary compensatory amounts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Agriculture: Green Rates and Positive Monetary Compensatory Amounts") ["how this question is viewed in the Commission and in the seven member states which do not have positive monetary compensatory amounts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community expenditure programmes and control of United Kingdom public expenditure") ["three issues which will allow a long term and better system"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute (diary) [“the issues confronting the Government over 1984”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham letter to John Gummer (“BBC Radio 4 ‘Any Questions?’”) [ban on appearances by ministers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Barbara Bush letter to MT (visit to Chequers) [“thrill of a lifetime”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador Prague to Foreign Ministry (Czech party press) [Czech criticism of MT visit, implicitly critical of Hungarian government also] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Training for Jobs”) [Rees-Jenkin disagreement over funding] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: King minute to MT ("Strikes in Essential Services") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: FCO minute for Turnbull (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [Howe’s comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Warsaw to FCO (“Press Comments on Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MOD minute to No.10 (“Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia”) [the French-Saudi Arabia arms deals and the British sales prospects] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong”) [working paper on constitutional arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on civil aviation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS (Panamanian freight tax) [Ridley looking for refund following UK exemption but Lawson and Howe opposed] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Department of Education briefing for MT (visit of Indian Minister of State for Education, Culture and Social Welfare) [aid & trade for new technology in schools] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Sale of Westland Helicopters to India") ["whether... aid proposal should be approved for commercial and political reasons"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Jaguar") ["some blocking mechanism to prevent foreign take-over after flotation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar") ['management buy-out' option] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar") [background; main issues; sale to foreign manufacturer; flotation options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 154 to FCO (0110Z) ("Lebanon: UK Proposals") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 152 to FCO (0100Z) ("Lebanon: French Initiative") [reactions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 516 to FCO (2303Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Moscow telegram 209 to FCO (0856Z) ("Message to President Reagan") [advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 177 to UKE Moscow (1250Z) ("Message to President Reagan") ["What is needed now from the Americans is an assurance which the Syrians can trust"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: King letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (cashless payments and repeal of the Truck Acts) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BGC's negotiations for Sleipner Gas") [UK gas exports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Younger PS letter to Biffen PS ("Shipping Subsidies for the Scottish Islands") ["announcement is likely to be controversial"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: FCO letter to Cabinet Office (Sarah Tisdall case) [summary of internal security measures in wake of the case] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Mario Soares) [MT visit to Portugal; entry to EC; internal situation; relations with US; Africa; South Africa] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Briefing") [questions and answers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: OECD Secretary-General note ("Ministerial Conference on The Longer-Term Performance of OECD Economies: Challenges Facing Governments") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Barclay ("DBS") [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: latest position on joint project; advice against providing Government reassurances on protection from competition and tax liabilities ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (independent national radio) [enabling legislation via Cable & Broadcasting Bill; dispute with Treasury about financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Wales: Chris Butler letter to Alison Ward (Welsh water charges court case) [“English consumers resented bailing out the Welsh consumers”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations brief (Executive Committee meeting) [resolutions from constituency/area associations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (talk with Czech Ambassador) [asks for explanation of Czech press criticism of MT visit] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Ronald Dumas card for MT (thanking for conversation & sending orchids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe message to UKE Paris (“Visit of President Mitterrand: 5 March”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Rees (“Training for Jobs”) [public expenditure and local authority finance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Turnbull (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [ministers in the dark] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan meeting with Neil Kinnock (briefing & background papers) [declassified 2002]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO record of conversation (“The Prime Minister’s Meeting with Mr Chernenko in February”) [UKE Moscow to FCO telegram] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw) [“Abolition of the GLC and MCC’s”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kaul) ["Indian Minister of State for Education, Culture and Social Welfare"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Clive Derby (TV licences and hotels) [unease about present arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: UKE Washington telegram 530 to FCO (2300Z) to FCO ("Israeli Settlements: Jordanian U.N. Initiative") [background; US reaction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: UKE Washington telegram 532 to FCO (2305Z) to FCO ("King Hussein's Visit to Washington: Arab/Israel") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") [draft MT message to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Mercury Licence") [proposal to grant licence directly to Mercury rather than to Cable and Wireless] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Security Commission Report on the Aldridge case) [amendments; publication: officer charged with breach of Official Secrets Act 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (ESPRIT) [clarification of MT comments to Davignon on 13 February regarding financing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Turnbull minute to MT ("Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: answer to Parliamentary question] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Geoffrey Curtis minute to MT (religion in Eastern Europe) [Reverend John Russell's record of his visit & impressions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Falkland Islands Government memo ("The Falkland Islands") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ingham, members of the Independent Television Companies Association Limited) [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite venture: "Essentially their concern was the problem of raising £200m to finance their share of the venture"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Prior minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower after 1984") ["to seek your agreement to announcing the results of the work which I set in hand... in parallel with that undertaken in Whitehall"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [UK's 1983 refunds; meeting of Energy Ministers; third Lome convention/overseas development; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Elections") [current position on preparations for the Elections; key points for Cabinet discussion; MT's engagement for the Elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: King statement (“Statement by Tom King”) [noting TUC opposition; government’s intent not to make changes; will compromise if TUC adopts statement of guidance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“Forthcoming Political Speeches”) [“suggestions as to whom you might ask to provide a first draft”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Hurd letter to MT (Budapest & Moscow visits) [Cruise, “in a good position to talk”; Soviet negotiations; police bill] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Taxation of Gilt Edged Securities of Building Societies") ["You might have to confirm...that this measure will not have serious effects on the flow of mortgage finance"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (draft speaking note) [“we do now need to consider the possibility of a new approach to the Irish question”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MOD letter to MT (the A320 negotiations: German interest) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 minute to MT (“Hong Kong”) [David Owen visit to China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: public presentation of HMG’s position”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, King Hussein, Taher Masri) [US/Lebanon; Israeli/Arab relations; Syria; Iraq/Iran] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT (MT, Howe, King Hussein, Taher Masri) [US/Lebanon; Israeli/Arab relations; Syria; Iraq/Iran; Queen's visit to Jordan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: John Stanley minute to MT ("Lebanon") [BRITFORLEB representation at Multinational Force Coordination Committee Meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe minute to MT ("Lebanon") [BRITFORLEB representation at Multinational Force Coordination Committee Meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King letter to Patrick Jenkin (funding for Development Commission Programme) [King explains why he cannot agree to Jenkin's request to divert funding from Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of New Zealand Prime Minister") [EC/NZ trade relations, international trade, sport and South Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Policy Reviews") [housing benefits;supplementary benefits; benefits for children & young people] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Chairman of British Shipbuilders (Trafalgar House bid for Scott Lithgow) [conditions for Government consent to process to full negotiation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Brittan, Tom King, Lord Gowrie, Michael Havers) ["The Polygraph": GCHQ pilot scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit minute to MT (report on visit to Washington and New York) [protectionism; limiting exports of high technology goods to Eastern bloc; US intrusions into UK sovereignty; extra-territoriality; export controls; IBM; AT&T; banking secrecy in Caymans; international anti-trust matters; Freddie Laker; BT flotation; communicating the merits of privatisation; high-level contacts with US; exports to US ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 227 to FCO (0800Z) ("Vice President Bush's Meeting on 14 February with Chernenko") [report of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Papua New Guinea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Proposed Invitation to Visit Britain: Mr Michael Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea") ["Our interests in Papua New Guinea are growing"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("MPs Expenses Payments and Tax") [additional costs allowance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne notes (European Elections Publications’ Committee (“Howe Group”)) [“Need to avoid banana skins.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Coles, Anthony Jolliffe) [Dr. Spilsinger's message: Argentine-British relations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (meeting with Rees) [spending provision in Scotland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Whitelaw PS minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [draft discussion document] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to Information Technology Division, DTI (security classification of recent correspondence with No.10 regarding BT/International Computers Ltd) ["would be inappropriate to downgrade... to 'confidential'"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 6th (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 6th (Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO minute for Armstrong (“Visit of President Mitterrand”) [his meeting with Attali] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute for MT (“President Mitterrand”) [arrangements for his visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: MT letter for Ronald Dumas (thanking for the orchids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (changes to corporation tax and capital allowances and effect on the Nissan project) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (changes to excise duties in 1984 Budget) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Reforming Business Taxes") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Building Socities: Taxation of Profits on Gilts"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Commercial Sponsorship”) [hopes MT will extend the cost price principle “to items other than equipment, and in particular, food and drink”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [MT agrees his plan for Nigerian debt problem - "we have little alternative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: January to April”) ["this month's slower growth brings £M3 within the target range"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MT letter to Ray Powell (meeting the officers of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Group: A320 project) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (selective authorities rate limitation scheme) [Rates Bill] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Younger ("Leyland Trucks") [future of Bathgate plant] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (McMahon, Middleton, Rawlinson, others) [institutional liberalisation and mergers policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 177 to FCO (2215Z) ("Lebanon: UN Options") [French draft resolution] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 89 to FCO (1130Z) ("Lebanon") [probable current Syrian thinking] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Lebanon") [draft MT message to Vice President Bush] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 74 to UKMIS New York (1813Z) ("Lebanon: UN options: French views") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to David Steel MP (Freedom of Information Campaign) [suggestion that Government has forbidden Civil Servants to communicate with FOI Campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Official Visit of Prime Minister of Mauritius to the UK") [MT agrees Howe's case for issuing invite] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Health Service Management") [appointment of Chair of NHS Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Financial Support for Shipping Services in 1984-85") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [advises briefing press to clarify Government objectives for sale/privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Shipbuilding") [British Shipbuilding/Harland & Wolff: "a much tougher expenditure line is called for": detailed recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Cockfield ("Scott Lithgow (SL) and Trafalgar House (TH)") [financial information on TH takeover of SL] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cockfield minute to MT ("Shipbuilding") [British Shipbuilders; Harland & Wolff: comments on projected productivity and costs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Harland and Wolff Limited: Strategy and Funding") [future strategy; Intervention Fund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Shipbuilders' Corporate Plan 1983/84-1986-87") [merchant shipbuilding; EFL for 1984-85; EC subsidy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: John Coles minute to MT (""Peace" letters from Soviet citizens") [handling of replies] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (the planning system: draft response to Sir John Sainsbury) [Sainsbury's difficulties in obtaining planning consents] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin personal note to MT ("Sir John Sainsbury") [Jenkin proposes to address 'wrong turn' taken by Department of Environment in handling planning applications: '...very strong vested interests will feel threatened and they will shout!'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Budapest telegram 71 to FCO (1445Z) ("Hungarian views on the Prime Minister's Visit in the light of Chernenko's succession") [Ambassador Unwin, Deputy Foreign Minister Esztergalyos: record of conversation: Hungarian government pleased by success of MT's visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands/Argentina: Reply from Argentine Foreign Minister") [normalisation of relations between Britain and Argentina] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Conservative Research Department draft ("Public Expenditure White Paper February 16th 1984") [wants a policy and programme review, not an "efficiency" exercise] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rees-Bailey-Redwood) [over-provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but not in Wales] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Defence and Oversea Policy Committee, 22 February") ["item 2 (European Community budget: contingency plans for withholding)"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Expenditure Programmes and Control of United Kingdom Public Expenditure (E(A)(84) 12)") ["further discussions between... [Lawson and Tebbit] seem likely to lead to an agreement... on the public expenditure control of the... [UK] share of Community expenditure and specifically on ESPRIT"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to James Goldsmith (thanks for small business speech) [“very gtreat interest … most stimulating”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Lomax minute for Chancellor & Permanent Secretary (“Monetary prospects”) [released 2012]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador Prague to Foreign Ministry (meeting with East German Ambassador) [does not agree with Czech criticism of MT visit] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute for Lawson (“Competition Policy”) [structure of the initial exercise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Redwood minute to MT (excise duties and business taxes) [Chancellor's proposals on excise duties could be seen as "favouring the rich at the expense of the rest"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (Chancellor of the Exchequer's papers on business taxes and excise duties) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Economic Policy") [thoughts on 1984 Budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (letter from Rauf Denktash) [acknowledging letter would “imply recognition of his status as “President””] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Treasury note to No.10 (London Summit) [proposed provision of note takers for ministerial meetings sounds “highly implausible”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute for MT (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [agrees Lawson's line] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO telegram 334 to UKE Washington (1915Z) (“Possible Escalation of the Gulf War”) [Gulf contingency planning] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Possible Escalation of the Gulf War”) [Gulf contingency planning] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Feb 18 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 587 to FCO (1925Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 93 to FCO (1120Z) ("Lebanon") [Syrian rejection of Saudi peace plan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 586 to FCO (1918Z) (“Possible Escalation of the Gulf War”) [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Feb 19 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (interdepartmental security procedures) ["use of commerical guard forces to protect classified information"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 minute to MT (BBC news report of Israeli bomb attacks on Lebanese villages) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 94 to UKE Beirut (1230Z) ("Lebanon MNF") [phased redeployment of US marines] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 138 to FCO (0930Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Bahrain telegram 31 to FCO (0745Z) ("The Gulf and Lebanon") [Bahraini concerns about US/UK policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Muldoon) [elections, NZ/EC trade relations, international trade, Gulf] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKE Washington telegram 50 to FCO (0230Z) ("Sir Robert Muldoon's Call: Sheepmeat and Butter") [talks with France] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKHC Nairobi telegram 312 to FCO (1300Z) ("Spring Box [sic] Tour of New Zealand") [alleged violation of the Gleneagles agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Rees ("BGC Corporate Plan") [financial targets; privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("The Legislative Programme") [gas privatisation; private rented housing; Scottish Law Bills; Public Transport Bill; Pollution Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: John Coles minute to MT (Lord Thomas: invitations to visit Russia and Argentina) [MT approves of visit to Russia] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Special Operations: Mr Julian Amery MP") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transport: Spanish PM González letter to MT (aerospace consortium) [impact on technology in Spanish industry, will make final decision soon] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for MT (call from Hugh Thomas: invited to round table discussion in Moscow & to visit Buenos Aires) [MT: Moscow visit a "good idea"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Prime Minister Papandreou (Hellenic Air Force) [sales pitch for Tornado: "We are in effect offering Greece partnership in a successful European enterprise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Prime Minister Gonzalez letter to MT (British Aerospace and the 'RAPIER' low level air defence system) [reply to MT letter "in connection with... [BA's] offer to form a consortium with Spanish industry... we hope to be able to make a final decision soon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Prime Minister González letter to MT ('RAPIER' system: British Aerospace consortium with Spanish industry) [four competing bids from UK, US, West Germany/France and Italy: "we hope to be able to make a final decision soon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Barclay ("Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution: Tenth Report") ["plenty of scope to embarrass the Government... need to review both our policy and its presentation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Howe PS ("UK Position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [comments on Howe aide memoire to MT of 27th January] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("European Community expenditure and the control of UK public expenditure") ["joint [Lawson/Tebbit] proposal set out in the attached memorandum"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Emma Nicholson (meeting about women’s organisation) [apologies for non-attendance] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Coal Firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [minutes from Turnbull and Walker to MT also in file] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Armstrong minute to No.10 (bilateral with Monsieur Attali) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs)") [Heseltine and Howe suggest that HMG encourages US Administration to support controls on ASATs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson minute to MT ("Medium Term Financial Strategy") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute for MT (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [agrees Lawson's approach] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of President Pertini of Italy”) [“Citizen Pertini”] declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 588 to FCO (1935Z) (“Iran-Iraq”) [Soviet diplomatic and military involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall to MT (“Escalation of the War in the Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO telegram 337 to UKE Washington (1515Z) (“Iran-Iraq”) [Western military involvement in the Gulf, contacts with Soviets] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Riyadh telegram 42 to FCO (0930Z) ("Lebanon") [Saudi reaction to Syrian rejection of peace proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 143 to FCO (1210Z) ("UN Force for Lebanon") ["Lebanon's position on the current proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: MT message to Robert Muldoon (visit to the UK) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Gowrie letter to Biffen ("Updating of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975") [procedure; amendments; draft explanatory note for amendments; paper on 1982 review] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to No.10 ("Research Council Charters") ["the extent to which the Secretary of State is empowered to direct Research Councils' activities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 note for file (background on Chernenko) [press cuttings, speeches] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Amery) ["Special Operations: Mr Julian Amery, M.P."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: John Moore PS letter to No.10 ("PAC Ninth Report - Hamilton College") [criticism of Scottish Education Department for failing to follow procedures in the sale of the College] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: MT letter to Lord Bethell (Soviet Prisoners Captured by the Afghan Resistance) [two soldiers' applications for political asylum in UK] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: John Houston note to John Gummer (preparations checklist) [strategy, manifesto, information campaign, policies] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Conservative Research Department paper (“Conservative Strategy”) [“need to be ready to defend our policies against the attack of Opposition parties, and also to go on to the offensive”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) New Zealand: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (thanks) [“delightful Dinner Party”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Athens ("Relations with Argentina") [negotitations about sovereignty over the Falkland Islands] [declassified Jan 2014]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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