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Text 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to UKE Montevideo (0030Z) (Uruguayan officer) [Commander Fontant landed before ship sailed from Port Stanley] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 95 to FCO (0330Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [Costa Mendez "hopeful of arranging early evacuation of Argentine workmen"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Victorious Whitelaw gains his reward” [PM's endorsement of Whitelaw record in face of party criticism]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) “'The ministry of short, sharp shocks” [profile of Willie Whitelaw & the Home Office]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Falklands landing raises clamour in Commons” [South Georgia incident - Commons statement, pressure to retain HMS Endurance]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hillhead [by-election]; Unemployment; Law & Order) [no mention of Falklands] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (0900Z) (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Possible EMS realignment: Green Rate changes"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET (0945Z) (keeping well clear Leith Harbour) [relieving BAS for observation and reporting purposes] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Science in India exhibition, press notices, EC briefing, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], EC mandate, Reagan visit) [plus copy of Luce statement in Commons] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina" - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute for Nott ("Falkland Islands: HMS Endurance") [HMS Endurance should be retained to support Falklands, given Argentine landing in South Georgia - MT's copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to Nott ("Falkland Islands: HMS Endurance") [HMS Endurance should be retained to support Falklands, given Argentine landing in South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General") [report on meeting with Edward du Cann: "made clear his continued support for the PAC's view that the C&AG should be able to follow public money wherever it goes"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Minutes of Liaison Committee meeting - 24 March 1982 (1100Z) (MT-Pym-Parkinson-Younger-Brittan-Wakeham-Stanley-Cropper-Ingham-Lilley-True-Hutt-Ward) [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 69 to UKE Buenos Aires & Governor Falklands (1220Z) ("Incidents at LADE office") [avoid incident being built up, express HMG's regret] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Wade-Gery briefing to No.10 (“Thermal power station for India”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (1440Z) (MT, Carrington, Biffen, Brittan) [“Thermal power station for India”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: No.10 record of conversation (1445Z) (MT, Joseph,Tebbit, Brittan, “Teachers’ pay”) [MT strongly opposed to arbitration] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 97 to FCO (1546Z) ("Incidents at LADE office") [have informed Balcarce at MFA, his account matches ours, low-key press statement issued by UKE] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (Reagan, EC Budget) [President to speak in Royal Gallery during his visit to UK] [released 2013]
Text 82 Mar 24 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech opening Science Museum exhibiton (1610Z) (science, technology and medicine of India)
Text 82 Mar 24 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech opening Science Museum exhibiton (1610Z) (science, technology and medicine of India)
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO flash telegram 24 to UKE Montevideo (1630Z) ("Roulement") [BAS permits use of John Biscoe, aim is to have NO8901 embarked tonight] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CINCFLEET (1702Z) ("For ACOS(O) from DNOT") ["Foreign Secretary has requested formulation of contingency plan to extend current deployment of HMS Endurance"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET (1930Z) (constraints on ship remaining on station) [morale, food & fuel] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1949Z) ("Falklands/Malvinas Dispute: Argentine Concerns") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires Defence Attache signal to MODUK (2030Z) ("The Argentine Military Threat to the Falkland Islands") [update in the light of events in South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Argentine Embassy London report to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Luce Commons statement, 23 March) [text extracted from The Times Parliamentary Report] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.3"M"/82 (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to bring forward planning to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: GCHQ signal to ?No.10 (2313Z) (intelligence report) [document closed; included here to indicate timing; possibly information that Argentine ships had been despatched to intercept HMS Endurance] [not declassified 2012; closed under Section 3:4]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 99 to FCO (2340Z) ("South Georgia") [Williams has further meeting with Costa Mendez; Costa Mendez having difficulties with his own Naval Commander in Chief] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Peter Shipley minute to Nick True (Easter weekend trouble expected in Brixton) [National Front, left-wing groups] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Monsieur Cheysson and European Defence”) [Western European Union and NATO] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: No.10 minute to MT ("The Disarmament Campaign") [lines to take] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Cars and Petrol") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Governor of the Bank of England (‘Hungary’) [in principle accepts HMG guarantee, but MT sees no need] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Armstrong minute to MT ("Bilateral Talks with the Elysee") [EC Budget negotiations: report of Armstrong's talks with Mitterrand representative] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Pattison minute to MT ("Foreign Affairs Council") [Atkins' House of Commons statement on EC Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO note for European Council, Brussels, 29/30 March 1982 - EHG(B)(82)6 (Greece and the EC) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Vatican: Archbishop of Canterbury letter to MT (argues that MT should attend Canterbury service for the Pope) [Pope's visit to the UK] [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 11, 1982 Series ("Trident") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Constitutional Development (OD(82) 13 and 14)”) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Wade-Gery minute to MT (“Economic Measures against the Soviet Union (OD(82) 15)”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Secretary minute for MT (Public Expenditure Survey 1982: Guidelines) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury letter to No.10 (Public Expenditure Survey 1982: Guidelines) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Teachers’ pay”) [outcome of pay negotiations for lecturers] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Indo-British Association letter to MT (Indo-British Association dinner speech) [Indira Gandhi visit to UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: King letter to Havers (“Local Government Finance (No 2) Bill”) [further statutory provision on rates and precepts] [declassified 2012]

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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).

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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