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PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to No.10 ("some thoughts on the present fiscal and monetary conditions") [ease monetary policy in 1986, tightening control of public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [still sounds complacent; MT disagrees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Banking Supervision White Paper: Chancellor’s Foreword”) [MT approves Lawson's personal draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS minute to Treasury (“White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Lawson (“Johnson Matthey Bankers Briefing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS (“White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson statement in the House of Commons (“Banking Supervision”) [publication of White Paper]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [markets driving up base rates; decision to wait till following day] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Markets”) [interest rates moving up a little after rate rise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT,Chancellor, Governor, Eddie George) [decision to increase base rates by 1 percent in response to market pressure; resist firmly any further pressure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Interest Rates and Your Meeting with Brian Griffiths and Alan Walters”) [Lawson might be persuded to delay 1.5 percent rise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (market pressure to increase interest rates) ["I have emphasised to the Treasury how very relieved you would be if there were no increase today"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“The Budget of March 1986”) [case for a tight budget, as in 1981] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Lawson (“Treasury Economic Forecast”) [oil at $20 and 15] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to Trade and Industry Secretary (“Regulation of the Wholesale Money, Foreign Exchange and Bullion Markets”) [Bank of England worries it will lack authority in these markets under the new regulated regime for financial services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: H.M. Customs & Excise minute to Chancellor (“Investigation of VAT Gold Fraud”) [JMB involvement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury Press Office minute to Economic Secretary (“The Reserves in February 1986”) [press notice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Chancellor’s PS (“Standard Chartered”) [possible bid by Lloyds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Chancellor’s PS (Lloyds Bank bid for Standard Chartered) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [Lawson described the two bids received for JMB; MT agreed Westpac bid should be accepted] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Department of Trade and Industry (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [report on enquiries into company’s involvement in gold fraud] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Bonn to FCO (“The Five Institutes’ Spring Report”) [summary extract] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“UK’s Relative Economic Performance”) [improvement since 1979] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT agreed "a further foreign currency borrowing" this year, ideally in recess] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Money and Interest Rates”) [Chancellor no longer wanting a cut this week] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [Bank working on study of recent behaviour of monetary aggregates; MT urges debt conversion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute covering Treasury paper (“Treasury Economic Forecast: June Exercise”) ["rather depressing … pay still the heart of our problems"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Annual Report of the Bank for International Settlements”) [importance of US deficit stressed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 8 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Compound Interest”) [neat way of calculating how long it takes for a sum to double at a given rate of interest - divide 69 by the rate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [Norgrove urges delaying half point cut] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs (current economic situation and prospects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Griffiths minute to MT (“Sterling M3”) [Greenwells Monetary Bulletin article on fast sterling M3 growth] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“Ansbacher”) [enquiry report - no criminal offences from payment of interim dividend] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Minister of State (“National Institute Economic Review: August 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT approves foreign currency borrowing but fears adverse press] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“HMG Foreign Currency Borrowing”) [briefing for floating rate note issue the following day] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (covering “Foreign Exchange Markets: Evening Report”) ["there is a lot of market talk about the need for an increase in interest rates"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Griffiths minute to MT (“Interest Rate Policy: Hysteria and Fundamentals”) [let exchange rate fall and keep intervention to absolute minimum] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Oil Prices - Short-Term Outlook”) [guesses that prices will move up to $20 in 2-3 months] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Middleton, Cassell, Blunden, George; afterwards MT-Lawson phone call) ["The Markets" - MT: "much of the present hysteria in the markets had been whipped up by the media"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Economic Secretary, Middleton, Deputy Governor, Eddie George) ["The Markets" - intervention to continue but at "absolute minumum"] [declassified 2014]
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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).

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