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PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (Lord Hanson's position) [MT would wish to see Hanson letter to Wyatt] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney: Sikorksky offer improved, but "they have now shot their bolt"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [follow up to Chequers discussion - Solicitor-General finds Heseltine letter contains a "material inaccuracy"; Powell suggests Solicitor write to Heseltine requiring correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses briefing for DTI press office on MT letter to Cuckney & "Future European Collaboration"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney: board decision to recommend Sikorksky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
Info only 86 Jan 6 Mo Chronology Key [Chronology] Westland: leak of Solicitor-General’s letter to Heseltine
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Prime Minister") [attaches "Fact Sheet"; important it should not be seen as a No.10 document] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to David Horne (MD Lloyds Bank) (Solicitor-General's letter) [no correction needed to Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Norgrove minute for Powell ('Charles') [Heseltine quoted on news calling Solicitor-General's letter "an astonishing piece of legal pedantry"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Westland Board circular to shareholders and press release (EGM 14 Jan 1986) [board recommends Sikorsky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute to Armstrong ('Westland') [commisions reply to Ashdown letters] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Foreign Secretary's PS ("Westland: Comments by Commissioner Narjes") [records Howe's commitment to investigate comments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') ["material inaccuracies" in Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne which he should correct; Powell annotates it "very satisfactory"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Solicitor-General ('Westland') [no "material inaccuracies" needing correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses briefing over last few days at MT's request, plus 24 Dec note on NH90 project] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine PS letter to Powell ('Westland') [Heseltine wants government "to express again the preference it originally held for a European minority stake"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [company’s decision overshadowed by Heseltine letter] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: UKE Rome telegram to Foreign Office (Italian statement about Westland) ["implications of great relevance to the process of European collaboration"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Unwin minute for Powell (replying to Heseltine letter of 6 Jan) [assesses his claims about 9 Dec E(A) decision on NADS] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks ("Draft speaking note on Westland") [for MT in cabinet - "We cannot go on like this"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Wicks (improved European offer) [to be announced at 1600] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute for MT (cabinet tomorrow) [arrangements for briefing press: "It will be important to move quickly on Westland"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Paddy Ashdown (reply to his letters) [Powell and Armstrong drafts] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') [glad that Heseltine is confident his earlier letter was accurate, judgment his responsibility; concern at leak however] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“The story off the boil”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: MT speaking note for cabinet ("a word about Westland") ["We cannot go on like this … even questions of fact should be cleared through the Cabinet Office"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (Italian statement about Westland) [tell them "not helpful for governments to make statements about matters of this kind which are internal to the UK"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Westland: Cabinet Discussion") [revised draft speaking note] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Cabinet Office (request to concert replies to PMQs by Austin Mitchell MP) [encloses] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Heseltine's PS ('Westland') [MT refuses to reopen decision to express no preference between offers; drafts also] [declassified Feb 2016]
Info only 86 Jan 9 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Westland: Heseltine resigned; Younger replaced him at Defence; Rifkind joined the Cabinet as Scottish Secretary
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (extract on Westland affair) [Heseltine resigns] [declassified 2010]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speaking notes (necessity of restoring collective responsibility) [“must restore govt’s standing & observe conclusions of 19th Dec”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Armstrong draft (cabinet conclusion) [“It is the policy of the government that it is for the shareholders of Westland to decide”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Wicks note to MT in cabinet ("A Lobby at 4") [“they have been told not to have one this morning without your permission”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Ingham note to Wicks ('Nigel') [Heseltine said he has resigned and promises statement later, presumably before 12.30] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Michael Heseltine over Westland Helicopters Affair") [12.10pm, including Downing Street statement] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Mr Heseltine, Rates, Channel Fixed Link") [17.30pm, reaction to Heseltine press conference at MoD; "resigned on a very narrow point of procedure"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: No.10 press statement (Heseltine resignation) [“Mr Heseltine found himself unable to accept this procedure and left the Cabinet”]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, economy) [“the battle on for Maggie’s crown”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 Press Office minute for Tebbit (media demands) [appearances at 1pm and on Question Time] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD telegram to UKE Paris, Bonn, Rome, The Hague (Heseltine announces his resignation to fellow Defence Ministers) ["issues for which we jointly worked are of paramount importance"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (resignation) [drafts as well as final text of letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Armstrong (MT meeting Amercian correspondents) ["If asked about Westlands" proposes she refers to attached statements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute for MT ("Handling of Heseltine's resignation") [over next few days and weekend media will be trying "to make life difficult for the Government, and yourself especially"; response] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 86 Jan 9 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Letter to Michael Heseltine MP (resignation)
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Commentary (The Sun) Westland: "Tarzan: My feuds with Maggie" (Heseltine resigns) ["amazing attack on Premier Margaret Thatcher"]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Sherbourne minute for MT ("Prime Minister") ["The most damaging effect … has been to show the Government and you looking, uncharacteristically, as though you are not in control"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Sherbourne minute for Powell & others ("Briefing for the Prime Minister after Mr Heseltine's Resignation") ["difficult questions which the PM can expect to get in the House" - list] [released Jan 2017]

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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