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PDF 79 Jul 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Thorneycroft report ("General Election") [post-mortem of the 1979 General Election] [released 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Sport: Gow minute to MT ("The Lord's Taverners") [MT invited to become first Honorary Lady Member of the Lord's Taverners] [released 2013]
PDF 79 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT (request by Time magazine for off-the-record chat with MT) [MT: "Tell him we have been let down before" when giving information off-the-record] [released 2013]
PDF 80 Sep 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (Lord Mowbray resigns as Lords whip, Earl of Avon replaces him) [released 2013]
PDF 80 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Mrs Ellison (thanks for luncheon on Remembrance Sunday) [thanks to Bishop of London] [released 2013]
PDF 81 Jan 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: No.10 press release (announcement of reshuffle) [released 2013]
PDF 81 Jan 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (appointment of Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, assistant whips and Lord in Waiting) [released 2013]
PDF 81 Jan 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ralph Harris letter to Gow (suggests one day seminar for MT with businessmen) [MT: "I meet so many of them on one occasion or another that I do not think a seminar would add to knowledge"] [released 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Presentation of the Policy of the Government and of the Party") [Thorneycroft and Pym proposals on public presentation of Government and Party policy] [released 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Burns to Andrew Turnbull (report of letter of the 364 economists to The Times ) ["Monetarism attacked by top economists"] [released 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Text of statement circulated in British universities on Government economic policy (letter of the 364 economists to The Times ) [released 2013]
PDF 81 May 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: Keith Speed MP letter to MT (letter of resignation) [released 2013]
PDF 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (Peter Blaker appointed as Defence Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador to London J.J. Louis letter to MT (Louis' suggestions on presentation of situation in Northern Ireland to US public) [thanks for dinner invitation] [released 2013]
PDF 81 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: No.10 press release (announcement of reshuffle) [released 2013]
PDF 81 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: No.10 press release (appointment of Junior Ministers) [released 2013]
PDF 81 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (new appointments to Government) [released 2013]
PDF 81 Oct 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT copy of 'Changing Gear' pamphlet ("Changing Gear: What the Government should do next") [released 2013]
PDF 81 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT (backbench committee election results so far) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham record of conversation (MT-Ingham) [MT's decisions on media arrangements] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens minute to MT (MT agrees to sit for portrait painter, June Mendoza) ["I am not at all happy about this...there could be as much as a year's delay on even the first sitting"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Walters minute ("Agenda for Meeting to be Held at 3.30pm on Wednesday, 13 January 1982") [monetary policy strategy and EMS] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 1, 1982 Series ("Economic Policy in the Industrial Countries") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow note of conversation with Parkinson (Pym in favour of proportional representation) [on reverse of Lord Beloff guest list for dinner party at No.10] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 2, 1982 Series ("Why Electoral Change? The Case for P.R. Examined") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (Nicholas Fairbairn resigns as Solicitor General for Scotland) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (Peter Lovat Fraser appointed Solicitor General for Scotland) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 3, 1982 Series ("The Employment Situation") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT notes on conversation with Chancellor Schmidt (Schmidt's visit to Moscow) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Mount minute to MT ("Speeches 1983") [proposed themes for upcoming speeches] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Dickson note to Pym (Derek Howe's suggested Lobby guestlist for meeting with Pym) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 4, 1982 Series ("Firm Action on Crime") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Wakeham minute to MT ("Liaison Committee Paper on the Government's Nuclear Power Programme") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Liaison Committee Paper ("Government's Nuclear Power Programme") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Paterson minute to MT (loan of Lemuel Abbott portrait of Nelson for No.10) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 5, 1982 Series ("The Employment Bill") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (Sally Oppenheim resigns as Minister of State, Department of Trade) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 6, 1982 Series ("Local Government Expenditure and Rates") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 7, 1982 Series ("Domestic Gas Prices") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 8, 1982 Series ("Background to the Budget") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: CRD letter to Gow (voting by current Liberal and SDP Members on Trade Union and Labour relations Legislation since June 1970) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Ingham minute to Stephens (MT wishes to sit for portrait by June Mendoza) [arrangements] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (new Ministerial appointments) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 9, 1982 Series ("The 1982 Budget") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (new Ministerial appointments) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 11, 1982 Series ("Trident") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ingham minute to MT ("Liaison Committee") [future engagements for Liaison Committee] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 12, 1982 Series ("Upholding the Law") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: No.10 press release (Carrington, Atkins and Luce resign; Nott's resignation not accepted) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: No.10 press release (Pym appointed Foreign Secretary, Biffen appointed Lord President) [this copy released 2013]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

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).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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