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Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (2010Z) (Falklands)
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (1322Z) (apparent rejection by Argentina of latest peace proposals) ["I cannot conceal from you how deeply let down [we] would feel if under these circumstances the U.S. were not now to give us its full support"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Apr 29 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: (1443-1506Z) [Falkland Islands]
Audio 82 Apr 29 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: (1443-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department paper for NSC meeting ("Next Steps on Falklands") [range of possible measures] [declassified 2002]
Text 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (Argentina rejects US plan) (extract) [will make clear UK "worked with us in good faith", acting on self-defence] [declassified 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2218Z) (position of US Administration given Argentina's failure to accept US proposals) [US "tilt" towards UK] [with MT annotations] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (2218Z) (Argentina rejects US peace proposal) [Argentina's refusal "to negotiate in good faith [has] made it necessary for the United States to adopt a new posture toward Buenos Aires"] [released 2013]
Info only 82 Apr 30 Fr Chronology Key [Chronology] Falklands: US `tilt’ in favour of Britain; Total Exclusion Zone put in force
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: National Security Council minutes (1335-1430Z) ("South Atlantic Crisis") (NSC 0048) [US 'tilt' towards Britain] [declassified 2011]
Text 82 May 2 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Thatcher memoirs Falklands: Decision to sink the Belgrano [memoirs extract]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2036Z) (MT proposes US enact complete ban on imports from Argentina to US) ["with so many young lives at risk - British and Argentine - I feel that we must make a supreme effort to prevent a major military clash"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan urges MT to consider new US peace proposals) [need to seize chance for a peaceful settlement "before more lives are lost"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement...I believe there is now a chance to realise that aim"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: US National Security Adviser memo for Reagan ("PM Thatcher's Reply on your Falklands Demarche") ["In a word, Maggie accepts the proposal"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT draft letter to Reagan (MT: "The letter to Reagan that was never sent...") [US proposals not "faithful to the basic principles we must protect"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (negotiations with Argentina: Haig's proposals) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: MT letter for President Reagan (2030Z) (The Falklands conflict: Haig's latest proposals) [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1740Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan asks MT to hold off military action, says US has sided with UK "at the price of its relations with Latin America"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: National Security Decision Directive (NSDD34) ("U.S. Actions in the South Atlantic Crisis") [measures arising from 30 Apr tilt] [declassified 1990]
PDF 82 May 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (1100Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [Versailles Summit, EC mandate] [declassified 2014]
Text 82 May 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands]
Audio 82 May 20 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio]
PDF 82 May 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy/Falklands: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("Italy and the Falklands") [detailed analysis of decision not to renew economic sanctions] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2230Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House record of telephone conversation (2300-2325Z) (Reagan-MT) [President calls MT urging ceasefire plan] [declassified 2016]
Text 82 May 31 Mo Press Key Commentary (Sunday Times) Falklands: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (urges ceasefire)
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“President Reagan and the US budget debate”) ["I am sorry to go on about this"; urges MT to intercede with Reagan, to get interest rates down] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (Heads of Delegation “Falklands”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Jun 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Reagan Public Papers Cold War: Reagan speech to the Houses of Parliament (1100Z) [external link]
Info only 82 Jun 14 Mo Chronology Key [Chronology] Falklands: Argentine surrender
Text 82 Jun 15 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands]
Audio 82 Jun 15 Tu Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio]
PDF 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (congratulations on victory in the Falklands) ["A just war requires a just peace"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Reagan telegram to Thatcher (victory congratulations & need for "a just peace") [declassified 2000]
PDF 82 Jul 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Parsons valedictory despatch ("The Falklands Crisis at the United Nations") [reflections by Sir Anthony Parsons] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Henderson Valedictory Despatch ("US Policy in the Falkands Crisis with some Valedictory Comments on US/UK Relations") [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Sep 1 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC (US pipeline sanctions - "deeply wounded by a friend")
PDF 82 Sep 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Weinberger note of meeting with MT (Middle East; John Brown Engineering; Falklands) [declassified 1998]
PDF 82 Sep 20 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Tokyo ("Massacre of Palestinians") ["it looks as though the [Israeli] government intend to brazen matters out"; reactions in Israel; UK position on responsibility for the massacre; MT statement; extracts from Report of Israeli Judicial Commisson of Inquiry (Feb 1983)] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 22 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Premier Zhao Ziyang of China) [NATO, trade with USSR, Poland, arms control, Afghanistan, US foreign policy, Taiwan, Japan, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Middle East] [declassifed 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 minute to MT (Pym “Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union”) [MT: “we have a major problem… shallowest paper I have ever read”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 5 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Luce testifies) [events Spt 1981-Apr 1982] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (MT testifies) [invasion "the worst...moment of my life"] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (U.N. resolution unacceptable to UK) [summary declassified 2000]
PDF 82 Oct 28 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [immigration issues, allied defence cooperation, industry] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, arms control, Poland, East-West relations, Western alliance, defence issues, Falklands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [Spanish elections, Falklands, East-West economic relations, economic summit, EC economic and budget issues, Poland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["I am truly sorry that we disagree on this matter"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["we believe it reasonable now to vote for the substantially modified resolution"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to President Reagan (UN General Assembly Debate) [resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations; MT: "we are utterly dismayed by [US position]"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [US will vote for resolution] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [UK "dismayed" by Reagan's message: "A vote by the United States for the resolution would be received here with incomprehension"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [Reagan argues for keeping open possibility of "a solution by negotiations sometime in the future"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (defends US stance at UN) [declassified 2000]
PDF 82 Nov 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (vote on UN resolution) ["I realise that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (vote on UN resolution) ["an American decision to support Argentina against Britain"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["The British people would see your vote for this resolution as an American decision to...support a dictatorship against the home of democracy"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["I realize that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 12 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (reaction to death of Brezhnev) [agrees his view that "a more constructive East/West relationship is available" if new leaders "adopt a new approach"] [declassified 2010]
Text 82 Nov 15 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet
PDF 83 Jan 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1805Z) (Arms Control) (NSPG 0050) [general support for the zero/zero option for INF, President thinks "Maggie would go along"; Pershing not Cruise the missile the Soviets fear; portrayal of London blowing up too strong for the President's speech] [declassified Dec 2000]
PDF 83 Jan 18 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key UK State Paper Falklands: Falkland Islands Review ("the Franks Report")
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF stationing problem, EC-US relations, world economic prospects] [declassified 2013]
Info only 83 Mar 23 We Chronology Key [Chronology] Reagan announced Star Wars programme (SDI)
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015]
Audio 83 Apr 5 Tu Multimedia Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [podcast - episode 1] [released 2015]
Text 83 Apr 11 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Observer (4th anniversary as PM)
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, Community affairs, arms control, East-West relations, industrial cooperation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [defence sales, Argentina, French-German defence cooperation, cooperation with the US, East-West economic relations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: EC budget, disarmament, human rights] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 29 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Armstrong record of conversation (MT, Howe, Reagan, Kohl, Trudeau, Mitterrand, Fanfani, Nakasone, Regan and others) [Williamsburg Economic Summit: plenary session] [declassified Aug 2013]
Text 83 May 31 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama
Info only 83 Jun 9 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] 1983 General Election: Conservative majority 144
Audio 83 Jun 22 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio]
Text 83 Jun 22 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on Address]
PDF 83 Sep 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Joseph, Walker, Jenkin, Tebbit, Parkinson, Cockfield, Lord Young, Walters, Mount, Armstrong) ["Employment Strategy Meeting at Chequers on 6-7 September"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) International economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Leigh-Pemberton) ['Brazil'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Parsons minute to Coles ("Anglo-American Relations") [argues for re-assessment of support for US policies in the Middle East and elsewhere] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF deployment, defence issues, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan, then lunch plenary) [Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina; Middle East, economy] [declassified 2008]
Text 83 Sep 29 Th Press Key Thatcher memoirs Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract]
Text 83 Sep 29 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at the Winston Chuchill Foundation Award dinner
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [defence disarmament, Allied cooperation, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Anglo-French Summit: East-West relations, arms control, Allied cooperation, Falkland Islands, Middle East, EC issues, British-French bilateral relations] [declassified 2014]
Info only 83 Oct 22 Sa Chronology Key [Chronology] Grenada: Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States requested US intervene (following coup 19 Oct)
PDF 83 Oct 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Luce, MT-Whitelaw, MT-Heseltine) [response to proposals by CARICOM states for intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Howe draft statement to House of Commons (situation in Grenada) [MT annotation: "No reason to think that military intervention is likely to take place"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to MODUK ("Grenada: From Col Beaumont in Bridgetown for Cossec") [details of US intervention plan] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [MT draft message to Reagan: "In short, I have serious doubts about mounting a military operation"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada"] [released 2013]

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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).

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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