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Date range: 4 May 1979 – 28 Nov 1990. Document type: Declassified documents.

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Text 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for new PM ("House of Commons Procedure: Open Government: Official Secrets") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 989 to FCO (2226Z) ("The Outlook for U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy") [analysis; Presidential & Congressional elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for new PM ("East-West relations") [top copy annotated by MT; other foreign policy and defence briefing] declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Bancroft minute to No.10 ("Submissions for the Prime Minister") [briefing on Special Advisers; ministerial travel; official residences; public appointments] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Draft remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis's prayer)
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: MT draft (St Francis’s Prayer) [“moving & beautiful song of St Francis”] [released 2015]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...")
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (Energy, EC, East/West, etc) [master copy of whole briefing set][declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Summary and Timetable of Urgent Economic Issues”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“The Budget”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Pay and Cash Limits”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("European issues") [challenge & opportunity] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("European issues") [as annotated by MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("Energy Issues") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for MT ('Rhodesia') [MT: "I agree we need care but a little courage is necessary too"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT notes for cabinet-making (near final copy?) [Heseltine refuses Energy; alternative names for other jobs, etc] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: NSC memo for Carter (congratulatory call to MT to end talk of rift) [declassified 2000]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter phone call to MT (congratulations on election result) [“tremendous personal victory for you”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Michael Cole letter to MT (hopes to conduct first interview with her as PM) [released 2010]

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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