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PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Friedrich Hayek (thanks for congratulations) [“have learnt so much from you over the past few years”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Peter Sellers (thanks for congratulations) [“ex Goon from East Finchley”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT to Sir Robert Armstrong (thanks for congratulations) [“One tends to become very isolated here. I must see that doesn’t happen”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT to Bill Deedes (thanks for card) [“we count on your advice and loyalty ... We must not let you down”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Senator Jacob Javits (thanks for congratulations) [“The real battle has begun”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to IEA (thanks for congratulations) [“primarily your foundation work”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Announcement of Public Expenditure Cuts") [cut to Rate Support Grant] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pepper) [assessing the budget] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gordon Pepper) [summary] [budget & money supply] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: MT letter to Henry Ford II (reply to Ford's letter) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to E Committee - E(79) 4 (11th Report of the Top Salaries Review Body) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Friedman MSS) Conservatism: MT note to Ralph Harris (message of thanks to IEA) ["let me thank you all for what you have done for the cause of free enterprise..."]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO letter to No.10 ("China: Possible Visit by Premier Hua Guofeng") [FCO recommends that MT agree to receive Premier Hua] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: President Kaunda of Zambia letter to MT (Lusaka Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [letter of invitation] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Local Authority Manpower") [draft parliamentary statement] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Karamanlis of Greece ("Signature of Greek Accession Treaty") [congratulations on accession of Greece to the EEC; Carrington to represent UK at signing] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lankester minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [update on pay negotiations] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cartledge minute to MT ("Your Talks with Mr. Cyrus Vance") [SALT, Rhodesia, Middle East] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Hector Monro (MT unable to attend sporting functions) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Helen Suzman (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO letter to No.10 ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the European Commission") [brief for MT meeting with Jenkins] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Cartledge minute to MT ("Three Wise Men") ["I think it really is essential that you should receive them"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Economy, Rhodesia, Living at No. 10) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: No10 record of conversation (MT meeting with Gordon Pepper) [public spending cuts, monetary policy] [released 2017]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: Brzezinski appreciation of Margaret Thatcher (“tends to dominate and to do most of the talking”) [declassified 2000]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Zimbabwe: Brzezinski memo for State Department (Carter backs revised internal settlement) [declassified 2000]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Carlisle letter to St. John-Stevas (Bill removing obligation on local authorities to introduce comprehensive schools) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (MT agrees arrangements for publishing Boyd Report) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 minute for MT (Fraser letter) [MT: "The people of Rhodesia have the right to decide themselves who shall be their government and whether they approve the internal settlement"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Fraser letter to MT (concerns over Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]
Text 79 May 20 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Carrington PS to Michael Alexander ("Mr Muldoon's call on the Prime Minister") [lamb/butter issues, Iran, Afghanistan, Olympics] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: President Jayewardene letter to MT (UK aid to Sri Lanka) [visit of special envoys; programme of economic development; waiver of loans] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (MT meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister - record of conversation) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (MT’s personal security in Tokyo) [Cabinet Secretary sees off karate girls] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (budget plans) [“quite severely contractionary” proposals] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Hunt briefing on Sherpa meeting) [“not a re-run of the Bonn Summit”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Biffen papers for Cabinet] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cartledge letter to the Department of Energy ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the European Commission on 21 May 1979") [need for a study on the bargaining position of the West in OPEC oil negotiations] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester note to Stowe (concerns about MT meetings with Pepper) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Roy Jenkins) [EMS, CAP, energy, Rhodesia] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Soames ("Civil Service Dispersal") [Howe welcomes "quick review" of proposals] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [arrangements] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: FCO letter to No.10 ("Jewish Community in Iran") [draft reply to message from President Carter] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia) [Arab-Israeli conflict, Egypt] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: John Stanley MP letter to MT (bias in the electoral system against the Conservative Party) [over-representation of inner-city areas] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education letter to No.10 ("Teachers' Pay") [details of formal pay agreement by Burnham Committee] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Department of Education ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations") [terms of reference for Clegg Commission] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("SALT II: Non-Circumvention") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban: National Seismic Stations in the United Kingdom and Dependent Territories") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Week Beginning 21 May 1979) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Conservative Research Department briefing note for Candidates ("The Labour Manifesto") [European Election Campaign] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Stevas minute to MT ("Special Advisor") [MT: "Has any Leader of the House ever had a special advisor? I can see no reason for it whatsoever"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (proposed milk retail price increase) [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Nott letter to Walker ("Milk Prices") [proposed increase in retail price of milk conflicts with reform of CAP and elimination of milk surplus] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Lankester minute to MT ("Milk Prices") [proposed increase in retail price of milk] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: No.10 letter to MAFF ("Milk Prices") [MT's view is that 1p increase in retail price of milk is "maximum that is politically feasible"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Stowe minute to Private Secretaries (questions of procedure for Ministers) [instructions for Cabinet] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jenkin memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 9 (Uprating of Social Security Benefits) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (MPs’ and Ministers’ Pay, Washington Ambassador, Industry Debate) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (MT meetings with “Foreign Visitors”) [Roy Jenkins, Saudi Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (MT visit to Paris announced - 5 June) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (Italian Ambassador’s visit to Tunis) [dispute over fishing rights] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Talk with Dr. Brzezinski”) [John Hunt: nuclear policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (agrees FCO plan for handling Boyd Report) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (MT comments on Fraser letter) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hall letter for Carless ("UK/Argentine Relations") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("Building Societies") [draft No.10 minute for Howe PS: tackling Building Society Association 'cartel'] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Pym letter to General Secretary of the Defence Police Federation (Ministry of Defence Police pay) [plea for pay & allowances on a par with regular police force] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Moscow telegram 299 to FCO (1445Z) ("Sino-Soviet Relations") [report on Soviet reaction to Chinese memo, proposing negotiations] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [budget prospects] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Prior minute to MT ("Slade Inquiry") [industrial relations] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Hunt minute to Stowe ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [arrangements] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Jenkin minute to MT (doctors' and dentists' Pay) [discussions with leaders of the medical profession on the Review Body report and private medical care] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Department of Energy") [draft account of MT's visit to the Department] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ryder note to MT ("Principal points emerging from the Directors Meeting held in Central Office at 11.00 a.m. on Tuesday 22nd May") [European elections, party political matters] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("Soviet Deployments in the Absence of SALT II") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens note to MT (invitation to Emmanuel Kaye birthday dinner) [MT: "We have to!"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Berrill minute to Stowe ("The Prime Minister's talk with Mr Heseltine") [Government's approach to housing] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Hunt minute to Lankester ("Housing") [background briefing on housing] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Welsh Rate Support Grant") [proposed transfer of responsibility for Welsh RSG to Heseltine] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: MOD record of conversation (Pym-US Secretary of State Vance) [defence, TNF, SALT and strategic nuclear issues, CTB, anti satellite warfare negotations, arms sales to China] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-US Secretary of State Vance) [defence and arms control, Rhodesia, Arab-Israeli conflict,Tokyo Economic Summit] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Walker letter to MT (proposed increase in retail price of milk) [addressing MT's concerns] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Pattison minute to MT (secrecy of Cabinet Committees) [draft Parliamentary Answer] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Jenkin minute for MT (meeting with the leaders of medical profession: the Doctors and Dentists Review Body report, private medical care) [declassified 2015]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Biffen note circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 10 (Review of Expenditure Programmes During Period in Opposition) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 11 (Review of Expenditure) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Goodhart for Governors of the Bank of England) [MBC draft paper for Quarterly Bulletin] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Criticism of Civil Servants, UK Ambassador to Washington, Civil Service Recruitment Freeze, Rhodesia) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Soviet and American views of the Italian internal situation”) [Soviets expecting PCI to lose votes, US agreeing] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]

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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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