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PDF 84 Jun 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT record of conversation (MT-President Botha) [presses on Mandela release: "Transkei takes responsibility"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Clothes diary (outfits worn) [1 Jan - 1 Dec 1988] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nigeria: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Visit by the Prime Minister 7-8 January") ["most successful visit ... establishing "close and friendly relationship with President Babangida"; British press 'deplorable'] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jul 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (Senator Sam Nunn - "A Defense Agenda for America's Next President") [CDP: "an important article - in effect the Democratic defence manifesto"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Aug 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Australia: MT letter to Sergeant Potter (thanks for good work) ["I am sorry that you had to deal with rather a crush at one point but we got there and I enjoyed my visit very much"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Poland: Ingham minute for MT ("The Media on Poland") ["These past four days ... have been somewhat unreal in media terms"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Poland: Charles Powell minute for MT (leading articles on her visit to Poland) [praise "from some unlikely quarters"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT draft speech for White House Banquet (farewell to Reagan) [remembers 1981 - "you told me ... that for all our economic difficulties, we would be home safe and soon enough"; cuts Churchill story] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: UKA Washington telegram 2796 to FCO (0430Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington: 15-17 November: A First Assessment") ["a state visit in all but name ... we love to be loved"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Barbara Bush letter to MT (pleasure at meeting again) [remembers MT's first visit in 1981; last visit "just puts the icing on the cake for this superb President"; George W. and Laura Bush moving to Dallas] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 18 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Bush family card ("Merry Christmas from the Bush Family 1988") [family photos in Maine] [released Jul 2018]
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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).

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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