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PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Radio") [length of contracts] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Lord Caithness letter to MT (NOx Protocol and Declaration) [delegates sought out UK to discuss environment] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to Walesa Brains Trust members (visit to Poland) ["I was so sorry that we had to break off our discussion yesterday because of lack of time"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The Community Charge: Publicity") [draft booklet and leaflets] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("NHS Meeting: Steering Brief") [medical audit, funding, reconstituting health authorities, family practitioners] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("NHS Review") ["a lack of conviction behind the reforms and a failure to drive the reforms forward"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("Community Care") [overlap of Community Care and NHS reviews] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Clarke PS minute to Cabinet Office (NHS Review) [self-governing hospitals] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Clarke PS minute to Dominic Morris ("Westminster and Chelsea Hospital") [proposal to change pattern of services and build new hospital] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Inland Revenue Valuation Office minute to Chancellor ("Revaluation effects & transitional arrangements report for England & Wales") [report ready; Lawson: "circulation as narrow as possible"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Economic Statistics Next Week") [relatively thin week for statistics - M0 figures moving in the right direction], but "a very long way to go" [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Solidarity leaders, Father Jankowski, Cardinal Józef Glemp) [ninety seven minute meeting] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [East-West relations, UK-Polish bilateral relations, economy and trade, arms control, trade union reforms] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000]
Info only 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech unveiling RAF memorial in Warsaw
Text 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at Gdansk Town Hall
Text 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Remarks after meeting Lech Walesa
CD only 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Polish TV (visiting Poland)
Text 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference in Warsaw
CD only 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC (visiting Poland)
Text 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN (visiting Poland)
Text 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for TV-AM (visiting Poland)
CD only 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for BBC (visiting Poland)
CD only 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for BBC World Service (visiting Poland)
Text 88 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for IRN (visiting Poland)
PDF 88 Nov 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1816 to FCO (1531Z) ("Call on Shevardnadze: CSCE Issues") [Ambassador Braithwaite record of conversation: wind-up of Vienna conference, and proposed Moscow conference] [released Jul 2017]
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 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires minute for Howe ("Argentina: The Peronists") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) ["wish you well in your goals of reforming the economy and of national reconciliation... [and] bridging the division of Europe. I hope that you will one day visit Britain"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to Cardinal Glemp (visit to Poland) ["You have done such remarkable work not just for the Church but for Poland. I hope that my own visit will have helped in a small way to lessen divisions and advance reconciliation"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to Lech Walesa (visit to Poland) ["I spoke later to General Jaruzelski in the terms which we agreed. He repeated to me his personal commitment to round table discussions"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to UK Ambassador to Poland (visit) ["We packed a great deal into a short time... But the problems and difficulties which lie ahead are all too clear and I am not sure how they can be surmounted"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to Prime Minister Rakowski (visit to Poland) ["I now have a much better understanding of... the scale and nature of the problems... I hope that the round table discussions will take place on a basis which all parties can accept"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to Rynkowski (visit to Poland) [thank you letters to various who escorted her on the tour] [declassified Jul 2016]
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 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Donald MacDonald minute to Charles Powell (visit by Quebec Premier) [trade issues, possible meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Chlorofluorocarbons: Proposed International Conference") [object to gain credit for environmental leadership in controlling CFCs] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Powell minute to FCO ("Cyprus: Further visit to London by President Vassiliou") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: general impressions") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [note on records of MT conversations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [Solidarity memo on its aims] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Pensions, MT's visit to Poland, Broadcasting White Paper) [row over suggestion that Lawson mooted means testing pensioners' benefits] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT (Meeting with Lord Goold) [to discuss Goold's position as party chair in Scotland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Douglas Hurd minute to John Wakeham ("Increases in the Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [proposed changes and consultations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Carolyn Sinclair minute to MT ("Increases in the Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [Hurd's proposed changes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit: general impressions”) [asssessment] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 minute to Howe PS (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [encloses document explaining Solidarity’s aims from Janush Onyskiewicz] [declassified 2016]
Info only 88 Nov 8 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] George Bush elected US President
PDF 88 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 773 to FCO (2230Z) ("Canadian Federal Election") [latest poll has Liberals "riding high"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Charles Powell minute to Ridley PS ("Chlorofluorocarbons Proposed International Conference") [announcement of plans] [declassified Dec 2016]

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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