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Text 1 January 2005: release of secret British Government files from 1974
Text 1975-79 releases from Thatcher Archive (April 2008)
Text A visit to Budapest, 2-4 February 1984
Text "And I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi ..."
Text Apprentice legislator: Margaret Thatcher's first efforts at law-making, 1959-60
Text Archive
Text Archives in the United States
Text Arguing with Auntie
Text 'Battle-hardened': an evening in Paris
Text Biography
Text Brief chronology 1925-90
Text Brief reading list
Text Britain & the origin of the EMS
Text "Britain's Thatcher": set texts
Text Carter Library
Text Chronology
Text Commentary
Text "Condemned to succeed": the Heath-Pompidou summit which took Britain into the E.E.C, May 1971
Text Ford Library
Text "Gentleman George": the secret archive of George Younger
Text George Bush (Sr) Library
Text Guide to the archives, 1925-79
Text Guide to the archives, 1979-90
Text Iron Ladies: Women in Thatcher's Britain
Text Libraries holding the CD-ROM
Text Lord Carrington's files on the Falklands
Text Lord Hailsham's coded diary
Text Margaret Thatcher & the Centre for Policy Studies, 1974-79
Text Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
Text Margaret Thatcher's Falklands Memoir
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1980
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1981
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1983
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1984
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1984
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1984
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1985-86 (2)
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1985-86 (3)
Text Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1985-86 (partly)
Text Margaret Thatcher's files on the Falklands
Text Margaret Thatcher's Fontainebleau Memoir
Text Margaret Thatcher's Moscow Memoir
Text MT in official files for 1994
Text MT in official files from 1992 - dealings with the new PM
Text MT official files from 1992 release
Text MT's FBI file
Text MT's official files 1988-90
Text MT's official files as Prime Minister, 1979-90
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (1) dictatorship and miracles
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (2) leadership and the "fourth term"
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (3) the NHS review & reshuffle; the economy
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (4) the environment, society
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (5) the Bruges speech I
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (6) the Bruges speech II
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (7) foreign visits
Text MT's private files for 1988 - (8) Life at No.10
Text MT's private files for 1989 - (1) unravelling
Text MT's private files for 1989 - (2) the European elections & their aftermath
Text MT's private files for 1989 - (3) Nigel Lawson's resignation
Text MT's private files for 1989 - (4) leadership challenge
Text MT's private files for 1989 - (5) foreign policy
Text MT's private files for 1989 - (6) Life at No.10
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (1) mastery lost
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (2) a way back from the dead, perhaps
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (3) planning for the next election
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (4) resignation, murder and war
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (5) joining the ERM disappoints
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (6) Rome, "No no no", and Howe resigns
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (7) uneasy peace then leadership election
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (8) the fall
Text MT's private files for 1990 - (9) Life at No.10
Text Multimedia
Text Newly declassified British Government archives from 1973-74 and 1984-85
Text Newly declassified British Government archives from 1973-75
Text Newly declassified British Government archives from 1976
Text Pavia Conference, 1-2 October 2007
Text "Poor and unproud": the Henderson despatch lamenting Britain's decline, March 1979
Text Reagan Library
Text Release of MT's official files for 1979
Text Release of MT's official files for 1979
Text Release of MT's private files for 1979
Text Release of MT's private files for 1979 - (1) Transition to Power
Text Release of MT's private files for 1979 - (2) Life at No.10
Text Release of MT's private files for 1979 - (3) Domestic policy
Text Release of MT's private files for 1979 - (4) Foreign policy
Text Release of MT's private files for 1980 - (1) Economic struggles, political strains
Text Release of MT's private files for 1980 - (2) "NOT for Turning"
Text Release of MT's private files for 1980 - (3) The No.10 machine
Text Release of MT's private files for 1980 - (4) Foreign policy - the Falklands, Europe & the US
Text Release of MT's private files for 1981 - (1) Politics & the economy
Text Release of MT's private files for 1981 - (2) Reshuffles & budget to remember
Text Release of MT's private files for 1981 - (3) Rebellion of the wets & the SDP
Text Release of MT's private files for 1981 - (4) the media (Murdoch; riots; off the record interviews)
Text Release of MT's private files for 1981 - (5) Life at No.10
Text Release of MT's private files for 1981 - (6) Foreign Policy
Text Release of MT's private files for 1982 - China & Hong Kong
Text Release of MT's private files for 1982 - Life at No.10
Text Release of MT's private files for 1982 - other politics
Text Release of MT's private files for 1982 - the Falklands War (1)
Text Release of MT's private files for 1982 - the Falklands War (2)
Text Release of MT's private files for 1982 - the Falklands War (3)
Text Release of MT's private files for 1982 - the Falklands War (4)
Text Release of MT's private files for 1983 - (1) politics before the June 1983 General Election
Text Release of MT's private files for 1983 - (2) the General Election
Text Release of MT's private files for 1983 - (3) politics after the election
Text Release of MT's private files for 1983 - (4) Life at No.10
Text Release of MT's private files for 1983 - (5) Falklands, East/West, Grenada
Text Release of MT's private files for 1984 - (1) the coal strike
Text Release of MT's private files for 1984 - (2) the Brighton Bomb
Text Release of MT's private files for 1984 - (3) Politics & life at No.10
Text Release of MT's private files for 1984 - (4) foreign policy
Text Release of MT's private files for 1984 - (4) foreign policy
Text Release of MT's private files for 1985 - (1) end of the coal strike & after
Text Release of MT's private files for 1985 - (2) Labour's recovery, Mar-Dec 1985
Text Release of MT's private files for 1985 - (3) Conservative malaise after the strike
Text Release of MT's private files for 1985 - (4) September 1985 reshuffle
Text Release of MT's private files for 1985 - (5) the economy, rates, Westland
Text Release of MT's private files for 1985 - (6) life & politics at No.10
Text Release of MT's private files for 1985 - (7) foreign policy, US
Text Release of MT's private files for 1986 - (1) Westland, crisis breaks
Text Release of MT's private files for 1986 - (2) Westland, a near death experience
Text Release of MT's private files for 1986 - (3) politics after Westland
Text Release of MT's private files for 1986 - (4) foreign policy with domestic implications
Text Release of MT's private files for 1986 - (5) Life at No.10
Text Release of MT's private files for 1987 - (1) run-up to the General Election
Text Release of MT's private files for 1987 - (2) the election campaign
Text Release of MT's private files for 1987 - (3) beginning the the third term
Text Release of MT's private files for 1987 - (4) conference, poll tax, the economy
Text Release of MT's private files for 1987 - (5) Moscow then Washington
Text Release of MT's private files for 1987 - (6) Life at No.10
Text Release of the Reagan-Thatcher tapes
Text Selections from MT's files as Prime Minister, 1986-88
Text Selections from MT's files as Prime Minister, 1986-88
Text Selections from MT's files as Prime Minister, 1986-88
Text Site Guide
Text Slim to win
Text Some key documents
Text Speeches, interviews & other statements
Text Spilling secrets - full publication of Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, May-Dec 1979
Text Thatcher Archive
Text Thatcher, Hayek & Friedman
Text The 1981 Budget - background & documents
Text The 1981 Budget - background & documents
Text The Bank of England's market reports
Text The Bruges speech, 20 September 1988
Text The Chancellor of the Exchequer's secret files
Text The Falklands War 1982
Text The Falklands War 1982 - 40 years on
Text The fall of Heath
Text The "Fireside summit": Geneva, 19-20 November 1985
Text The G7 summits: declassified records published for the first time
Text The Heath Government, 1970-74
Text The Polish crisis of 1981-82
Text The US & the Falklands War (1): the US 'tilt' towards Britain (30 Apr 1982)
Text The US & the Falklands War (2): the CIA
Text The world of Confidential Filing
Text Tiananmen Square, June 1989
Text Treasury Private Office papers
Text U.K. Freedom of Information
Text U.S. National Archives
Text U.S. National Archives
Text Who was Margaret Thatcher & what did she do?
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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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