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PDF 92 Aug 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: FCO telegram 693 to UKE Washington (1540Z) ("Yugoslavia: Use of Force Resolution") [questions for US Administration] ​​​​​​​[released Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: Douglas Hurd letter to MT (counters her letter) [acknowledges Belgrade ultimately controls Bosnian Serbs, but rejects military action] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (FBI) US: FBI Boston teletype to FBI Director (PIRA plot against MT) [PIRA suspects - background and movements; threats against MT - “we are going to take care of her”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 92 Sep 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FBI) US: FBI memorandum (“Alleged threat to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher …”) [named IRA operatives “capable of carrying out such an act”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 92 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury letter (“The Exchange Rate” [after Black Wednesday]) [“devaluation … a blessing in disguise … how and when we rejoin the ERM”] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 92 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKA Washington fax for Stephen Wall ("Baroness Thatcher: Calls at the White House") [Bush "gave me a large wink" when MT talked of Europe] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Should sterling rejoin & if so when?”) [“should not exclude … the possibility that … floating has a better chance of success”] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 92 Sep 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) MT: Debbie Fletcher letter to Alex Allen (MT's CNN speech) ​​​​​​​[enclosing text] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Enlargement Negotiations") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("European Community: visit of Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands") [Maastricht Treaty] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of Turkish Prime Minister, 23 November") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of Turkish Prime Minister, 23 November") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Defence Implications of Community Enlargement") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister of Turkey Demirel letter to Major (Turkey/EC cooperation) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for Major ("Call by Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers of the Netherlands: Tuesday 10 November") [Maastricht Treaty ratification; subsidiarity; openness; future financing; sites of EC institutions; GATT; former Yugoslavia; enlargement; Eastern Europe] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Oslo telegram 375 to FCO (1143Z) ("Norwegian Labour Party Conference: Decision to Apply for EC Membership") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (Major, Hurd, Lubbers, Michael Jenkins) [Maastricht Treaty] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Letter from the Turkish Prime Minister") [Major's draft reply: EC/Turkey relations] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO briefing for Major ("Prime Minister's Lunch with Prime Minister of Demirel of Turkey on 23 November, 1992") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major letter to Prime Minister of Turkey Demirel (Turkey/EC cooperation) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (John Major, Turkish Prime Minister Demirel) [war in Yugoslavia; Turkey/EC; privatisation & Turkish economic situation; Northern Iraq; Cyprus; human rights] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Wilson minute for Arthur ("Possible Increase in British MEPs; Boundary Changes") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister of Norway Brundtland letter for Hurd (Norwegian application for membership of the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister of Sweden Bildt letter for Major (Swedish application for membership of the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 767 to FCO (0716Z) ("Demirel's Visit to London: Coverage in Turkish Press") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt letter to Major (Swedish application for membership of the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) MT: Prentice minute for FCO Permanent Under-Secretary ("Lady Thatcher's 1993 Travel Plans") ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 93 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Minister of Agriculture letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Visit to Sweden and Finland: 19-21 November 1992") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Jan 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 29 to FCO (0600Z) ("EC/Malta") [Maltese foreign minister "claims German support for early EC membership"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Bosnia: US Embassy in London telegram to Secretary of State (Thatcher attacks UK policy in Bosnia) [unclassified]
PDF 93 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Lady Thatcher's visit to Poland") ["Bosnia and the need to help the democratic reform movement in Russia were her two main themes both in public and private, but no new elements in the Bosnia case"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 93 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Vienna telegram 153 to FCO (1526Z) ("Austria and Schengen") [change in position: Austria wants to join Schengen only after it joins the EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Jul 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Britain & the ERM: Chancellor’s speech to the European Policy Forum”) [defends Lamont speech, 10 July 1992] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Aug 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Calculating the cost of ‘Black Wednesday’”) [methodology discussed] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Aug 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The cost of intervention”) [$4.19b over 3 Aug 1992 - 1 Apr 1993] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Dec 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The cost of intervention”) [counterfactuals] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Dec 21 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The ERM Project”) [lengthy analysis of decision to join & policy during membership] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Reflections on the UK’s membership of the ERM”) [comment on the ERM project paper] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Reflections on the UK’s membership of the ERM”) [further comment on the ERM project paper] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Martin Mansergh) [urges British Government to remain "reasonably optimistic" as to PIRA response to Joint Declaration; Adams visa] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (2205Z) ("Gerry Adams") [no decision yet on visa application, State & Speaker opposed, NSC keen to give 'constructive' response] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Gerry Adams") [disturbing conversation with NSC official] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Lake's secretary) [Adams visa - Sinn Fein stringing along British and Irish Governments in seeking clarification of Joint Declaration] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for Major ("Northern Ireland") [expectation that PIRA will not accept Joint Declaration and are preparing for increased violence; ways to pressurise Sinn Fein] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("USA/Gerry Adams") [seeks comment on draft letter from No.10 to National Security Adviser Tony Lake] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Lake) [talks between No.10 and White House over the weekend re: US visa for Gerry Adams] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Northern Ireland meeting on 26 January") [advance notice of questions PM wants to explore] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to No.10 ("Gerry Adams") [Holl at NSC warning that Adams visa would be granted on terms unacceptable to UK] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 179 to FCO (2341Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Acting Secretary of State Tarnoff wanted visa idea dropped or granted only by agreement with UK] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Secretary-US Ambassador) ["Northern Ireland: Visa for Gerry Adams" - Hurd warned against granting it without denunciation of violence; Seitz spoke of pressures on Clinton] [declassified Dec 2018]

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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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