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Date range: 4 May 197928 Nov 1990. Document type: Declassified documents.

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PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Future of the Price Commission") [abolition of the price commission] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lankester minute to Cabinet Office ("Energy Issues") [MT's comments on Hunt's briefing] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lankester minute to Department of Energy (priority energy issues) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 1 (Committee Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt note circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 1 (Committee Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Stowe minute to Bancroft ("A Freeze on Manpower") [Civil Service recruitment freeze] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge note to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit: Your Speech After Dinner on 10 May") [MT: Draft speech "is excellent"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 to FCO ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit, 10/11 May: Briefs") [MT's comments on briefs] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("New British Government: Irish Press Reactions") [press reactions "cautious and restrained"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cardinal Hume letter to MT (letter of congratulations and request for meeting) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hunt minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [comment on Clegg Commission] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: National Association of Head Teachers letter to MT (teachers' pay negotiations) [appeal to MT to "break the impasse" in pay negotiations] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Comprehensive Test Ban") [MT's comments on Cabinet Office paper] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("SALT") [MT's comments on Cabinet Office paper] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Stowe minute to No.10 political staff ("Access to papers") [arrangements for submission of papers to MT] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Derek Howe minute to MT (Director of Information job description) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: List of No.10 Staff for Ryder ("10 Downing Street Staff At May 1979") [includes Adam Ridley, Michael Portillo] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan (thanks for message of congratulations) ["I love the prayer of St Francis, and it seemed so right"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Carter (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Lankester minute to Cabinet Office ("Pay and Cash Limits") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Stowe minute to Hunt (MT's thoughts on terms of reference and membership of Cabinet standing Committees) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Stowe minute to MT (terms of reference and membership of Cabinet standing Committees: summary) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(79) 1 (Draft Queen’s Speech) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“The Italian political situation one month before the General Election”) ["little hope that the election will result in a stronger government"; polls show DC gaining, PCI losing a few points] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: No.10 internal minute (“Audiences”) [MT audiences with Queen] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ian Gilmour-Foreign Secretary) [EC budget] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (MT comments on Hunt's incoming brief) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Muzorewa letter to MT (assurance of support) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu 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 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Nicholas Edwards letter to MT (Ministerial conflicts of interests) [Lloyds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: No.10 briefing for MT ("Cabinet") [record of conclusions reached at informal meeting of Cabinet Minister's in advance of MT's first formal Cabinet meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet") [lines to take "about mutual trust between colleagues and also between Ministers and their senior Advisers: and additionally... about diaries"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Ken Stowe minute for MT (establishment of Policy Unit under John Hoskyns) [“help to keep the strategy clear”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (favours merchandising) [MT: “NO permission to be given at all on any goods of any kind”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Gordon Reece minute for Caroline Stephens (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [suggests should be after Queen’s Speech] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter letter to MT (SALT II agreement to be announced) [would value help with Senate ratification] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Adam Ridley minute to MT ("Economic Strategy") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Queen's Speech - Abolition of the Price Commission") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT (letter to MT from Deputy Chairman of the Price Commission, Leslie Pincott) [Pincott "expresses concern at reports that the Price Commission may be abolished"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt minute to MT ("Standing Commission") [Clegg Commission on pay comparability] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The Nationalised Industries: Notes for Ministers") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Freeze on Manpower") [Civil Service recruitment freeze] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit 10-11 May") [arrangements for visit] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Goodchild note to MT ("Dinner for Chancellor Schmidt: Thursday, 10 May") [MT comments on seating plan] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to MT ("Visit of Chancellor Schmidt: EEC Budget") [briefing of proposed solution to budget problem] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Rayner letter to MT (accepts invitation to become an adviser) ["I shall do my utmost to bring about the changes that are needed"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May") [brief for MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: HMT letter to No.10 (problems inherited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer from previous government) [declassified 2009]

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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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