Search

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

(-) Remove Documents filter Documents (73660)
Files (2037) Apply Files filter
Guides (0)

Showing items 301 - 400 of 73660.

Per page:


79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting of NEDC on 6 June") [MT will not attend] [declassified 2009]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Federal Chancellor's Visit to London: German Media Reactions") ["The overwhelming consensus is that the meeting between the two heads of government was a success"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prior) [extension of Mortimer's term as Chairman of ACAS] [released 2010]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (appointment of Michael Portillo as special advisor) [declassified 2010]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	Zimbabwe: Vance minute to Carter (MT and Rhodesia) [declassified 2008]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 5 (Cash Limits) [declassified 2009]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 6 (The Way Forward on Pay) [declassified 2009]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 7 (The Adjustment of Cash Limits to Take Account of Civil Service Pay Settlements) [declassified 2009]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia, Legislation, Hanging, Price Commission) [released 2010]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Transport: Fowler minute to MT (Inquiry into heavy lorries and the environment) [declassified 2012]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	USA: UKE Washington telegram 40 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“still great uncertainty”] [declassified 2012]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	China: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Sino-British relations”) [declassified 2013]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute for MT (Drinkwater's separate report) [declassified 2009]
79 May 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 May 15 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]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: USE Buenos Aires airgram to the State Department ("The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands: A Political and Social Review") [predicts negotiations will eventually secure the islands for Argentina and end "Britain's admittedly anachronistic colonial rule"] [published 2015]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, officials) ["it would be a mistake for the new Government to hedge or prevaricate further with the Argentines who knew we had been doing so in the past"] [declassified 2012]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Ure minute to Ridley's PS ("Falklands/Antarctic Resources") [oil & fishing] [declassified 2012]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Department of Transport letter to No.10 (allocation of ministerial responsibilities) [declassified Dec 2014]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Kenya: Cartledge minute to MT ("State Visit by President Moi of Kenya") [suggested arrangements for 13 June] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Treasury Ministers & Officials meeting on public spending) [Treasury approach “not nearly tough enough”] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Colin Peterson minute to PM & Stowe (“Cars at No.10”) [“We have a problem about replacing our cars”] [released 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Treasury note for Chief Secretary ("Proposals on Public Expenditure") [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Cash Limits") ["fatal ... to take brave decisions now, only to run away from them later"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure: Scope for Cuts" ) ["dreadful inheritance"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("The Way Forward on Pay (C(79) 6)") [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Howell minute to MT (main energy issues) [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Standing Commission on Pay Comparability (C(79) 3)") [Clegg Commission] [declassified 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial policy: Lankester minute to MT ("Visit of Henry Ford") [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Hunt briefing for MT ("Civil Service Manpower (C(79) 7)") [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Hunt briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure 1979-80: Cash Limits 1979-80 and Civil Service Manpower") [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris, 5 June 1979") [MT accepts invitation] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iran: FCO to UKE Tehran ("Iran Jewish Community") [information requested for response to message from President Carter] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Carlisle minute to MT (controls on Local Authority staffing) [impact of Heseltine's proposals on education] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Pattison note to MT (Heseltine's proposals for constraints on Local Government staffing) [MT: "Go ahead on the basis of Mr Heseltine's excellent memorandum"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Hunt briefing for MT ("Teachers Pay (C(79) 8)") [declassified 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Science: Hunt minute to MT ("Science") [management of science issues, ACARD] [declassified 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Hunt briefing for MT ("Co-ordination of Maritime Affairs") [declassified 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	Cold War: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Evening Report") ["Thatcher Government on TNF Arms Control"] [declassified 2008]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Retail and Wholesale Milk Prices") [urgent need for increase in retail price of milk] [declassified 2011]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Carlisle memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 8 (Teachers’ Pay) [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Beverly) [Governor’s agenda for meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Assistant Whips, Price Commission, Rhodesia, Capital Punishment) [released 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Bulletin (press can be told of PM’s coming meetings with Begin, Vance & Jenkins) [released 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Bulletin (decision to abolish Price Commission - list of ministers present) [released 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	USA: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Brown, Pym) [nuclear, Middle East, China] [declassified 2012]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Cartledge minute to MT ("Lord Boyd's Report on the Rhodesian Elections") [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Boyd letter to MT (introducing report) [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Ministerial conflicts of interests) [David Mitchell; Michael Marshall] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS)	MT: Caroline Stephens to Ronnie Millar (thanks) [“you did more than anyone else to win the election & she knows it”]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (weekly report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: MT letter to Daily Mail editor David English (thanks for congratulations) [“You have been a wonderful friend in recent years ... I hope I will not let you down”] [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: MT letter to President Carter (SALT II, etc) [delays substantive reply] [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Treasury minute on budget calculations (“ Problems ... Solutions”) [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Carrington-Danish Foreign Minister meeting in Copenhagen (record of conversation) [Nordic area & TNF] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UK Delegation NATO to FCO (account of Defence Planning Committee meeting) [“NATO TNF Modernisation”] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Hunt note for MT ("The Way Forward on Pay") [additional briefing] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Anglo-German Summit Meeting: Official German Reactions") [FRG statement: "the prospects look good for Europe and good for the alliance"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Stowe letter to Private Secretaries ("Review of Quangos") [Ministers should consider reductions to Quangos for which they are responsible] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran Jewish Community") [information and recommendations for response to message from President Carter] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body Report") [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Lankester minute to MT ("Visit to the Department of Energy") [briefing documents for MT's visit] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Association of Independent Businesses letter to MT ("Inflation Proofed Pensions and the Civil Service") [criticism of report by Government Actuary] [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: MT letter to General Secretary of National Association of Head Teachers (teachers' pay) ["it is highly regrettable that our relations with the teacher associations should have to begin against a background of industrial action"] [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Duty Clerk note to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [rate support grant and pay] [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Archbishop of York, Stuart Blanch (thanks for letter) ["you were writing a new book I believe - would you let me know when it's due to come out"] [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Suffragan Bishop of Lewes, Peter Ball (thanks for letter) ["Letters like yours are a great source of strength"] [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter Jacques Chirac (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter Chairman Kosygin (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter NATO Secretary-General Luns (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter President Nyerere of Tanzania (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter Prime Minister Botha of South Africa (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter Foreign Minister Botha of South Africa (thanks for letter of congratulations) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (thanks for letter of congratulations, and looking forward to CHOGM, Lusaka) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Tommy Sopwith (thanks for roses) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Stephens note to MT ("Freedon of Kensington and Chelsea") [MT: "I really don't want to get involved in a big ceremony"] [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Department of Employment letter to No.10 (proposed appointment of Robbie Gilbert as special advisor) [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: HMT letter to No.10 ("Mr. George Cardona") [appointment of special advisor] [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Hunt minute to Vile ("Revelation of Cabinet Committees") [account of Hunt meeting with MT] [declassified 2011]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Cartledge note to MT ("Three Wise Men") [European Council group to meet with MT; MT: "I think it should now be dealt with by Lord Carrington"] [declassified 2011]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(79) 2nd (Legislative Programme, SALT, Rhodesia, Community Budget, CAP, etc) [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia, Boyd Report, Capital Punishment) [released 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Canadian Embassy Rome telegram to Canadian Department of External Affairs (“Italian Elections - aspects of campaigns”) [terrorism putting PCI on defensive, Andreotti under pressure also] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute for MT (“Pensions uprating”) [DHSS certain that legislation will be required] [declassified 2012]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	USA: MT telegram to President Carter (foreign policy issues) [interim reply] [declassified 2012]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Boyd letter to MT (proposes British gesture to Muzorewa government) [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (Boyd report on Rhodesian elections) [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
79 May 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 May 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: MT to Lord Chalfont (future of Washington Embassy) [“So much will depend on our future relations with the Carter Administration”] [released 2017]
79 May 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT to Ralph Harris (free enterprise) [“It was primarily your foundation work which enabled us to rebuild the philosophy upon which our Party succeeded in the past”] [released 2017]
79 May 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: No.10 minute: Ryder to Lankester (Prime Minister's speaking engagements) [list] [declassified Jul 2016]
79 May 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Karamanlis ("Signature of Greek Accession Treaty") [UK representation at the ceremony] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 May 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (budget) [“industrial priorities as I see them”] [declassified 2009]

Per page:

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.

Legend

Full text on site
PDF
Photo
Video
Audio
Info only (no text available)
Text on CD only

People
-MT's meetings as PM
-MT messages to and from world leaders
-MT contacts with Jimmy Carter
-MT contacts with Ronald Reagan
-MT contacts with George Bush Sr
-Foreign Secretary’s meetings
-Foreign Secretary’s minutes
-Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meetings
-Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes
-Charles Powell minutes
Margaret Thatcher
-Autobiographical comments
-Autobiography (childhood)
-Autobiography (marriage & children)
-Famous statements by MT
-Famous statements by MT (discussions of)
Politics & parties
-Conservatism
-Conservative Party (organization)
-Conservative Party (history)
-Conservative (leadership elections)
-Labour Party & socialism
-Liberal & Social Democratic Parties
-Leadership
-Media
-Religion & morality
Law & the constitution
-British Constitution (general discussions)
-Monarchy
-Executive
-Executive (appointments)
-Judiciary
-Parliament
-Union of UK nations
-Civil liberties
-Law & order
-Race, immigration, nationality
Elections
-Elections & electoral system
-General Elections
-Local elections
-By-elections
-European elections
Foreign policy
-British relations with France
-British relations with Italy
-British relations with Netherlands
-British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany
-British relations with the Soviet Union
-British relations with the US
-British policy towards Hong Kong
-British policy towards South Africa
-Foreign policy (USA)
-Foreign policy (USSR & successor states)
-Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU)
-Foreign policy (Africa)
-Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA)
-Foreign policy (Asia)
-Foreign policy (Australia & NZ)
-Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe)
-Foreign policy (Middle East)
-Foreign policy (development, aid, etc)
-Foreign policy (International organizations)
-Commonwealth (general)
-Commonwealth (Rhodesia-Zimbabwe)
-Commonwealth (South Africa)
-European Union (general)
-European Union Budget
-Economic, monetary & political union
-European Union Single Market
-Foreign policy - theory and process
Defence, security & intelligence
-Defence (general)
-Defence (arms control)
-Defence (Falklands)
-Defence (Gulf War, 1990-91)
-Security services & intelligence
-Terrorism
-Northern Ireland
Economic issues
-Agriculture
-Employment
-Energy
-Industry
-Monetary policy
-Privatized & state industries
-Pay
-Public spending & borrowing
-Taxation
-Trade
-Trade unions
-Trade union law reform
-Transport
-Science & technology
-Strikes & other union action
-1984-85 coal strike
-Economic policy - theory and process
Social issues
-Family
-Social security & welfare
-Society
-Voluntary sector & charity
-Women
Environment, housing, etc.
-Arts & entertainment
-Community charge (“poll tax”)
-Environment
-Housing
-Local government
-Local government finance
-Sport
Health
-Health policy
-NHS reforms 1987-90
-Private health care
Education
-Education
-Higher & further education
-Private education
-Primary education
-Secondary education