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Text 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to Cabinet Office ("Rayner Unit and Management Efficiency Group, MPO") ["This minute identifies our current priorities and the work we shall be engaged with in the coming months"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE Madrid Meeting: Appeal by Certain Neutral and Non-Aligned (NNA) Heads of Government") [continuation of CSCE process, improvements to draft text] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Department of Trade letter to No.10 ("Renegotiation of the Lome Convention") [comment on MT's proposal to link multilateral aid to purchase from relevant donor country] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKHC Nicosia (message from MT to Kyprianou) [allegations about Armenian terrorism in Cyprus] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to Heseltine (“A defence suppression weapon for the RAF”) [procurement: BAe vs. US contract] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 briefing for MT (“HARM and ALARM”) [procurement: BAe vs. US contract] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“HARM and ALARM”) [procurement: BAe vs. US contract] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Walters minute to No.10 (“Argentina, IMF and commercial bank loans”) [“disappointing”Treasury paper fails to address freezing of loans scenario or arms purchase question] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“International financial scene: Brazil”) [“taken a turn for the worse”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on Williamsburg and Stuttgart") [meeting with Pym and Howe: issues relating to forthcoming G7 and Council of Europe summits, including schedules & dates in context of UK General Election] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Pym PS letter to FCO European Community Department (Internal) ("Stuttgart") [forthcoming Council of Europe summit: dates] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to Lord Lever (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [Lords Lever & Roll meeting with Helmut Schmidt to discuss economic issues likely to arise at the Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting on Williamsburg & Stuttgart") [schedules] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National health: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS Management Inquiry") ["I now enclose... preliminary progress report... which I find most constructive and encouraging"; MT response] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("BSC Corporate Plan 1983/86") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (“Employee Involvement”) [Tebbit’s voluntarist proposals insufficient] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Conservative Research Department analysis of the Labour Manifesto ("The Labour Manifesto 1983") [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherman minute (Sherman's visit to the US) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherman letter to Gow (future of the Centre for Policy Studies) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: CRD briefing ("Alliance Manifesto 1983") [SDP-Liberal Alliance manifesto analysis] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: CRD briefing ("Labour Manifesto 1983") [Labour manifesto analysis] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: No.10 Duty Clerk note to MT (poll lead narrows to 7%) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Monckton minute to Gow ("Lessons from the Perth Speech") [warns against MT 'stooping to personal abuse' in speeches; MT: "Where was there personal abuse in that speech? Please give me one example"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Derek Howe note to MT ("Yours Magazine (Help the Aged)") [draft of MT article] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Rickett minute to MT (viscountcy for House of Commons speaker George Thomas) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Finland: Prime Minister Sorsa of Finland message to MT (thanks for congratulations on Sorsa's reappointment as Prime Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Bahamas: MT letter to Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas (appointment of new UK High Commissioner to the Bahamas) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles letter to John Lyon (Prior’s views on prospects for the future) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (general election) [“Tories plan to use defense issue to win votes at Labour’s expense”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Pym minute to MT (“Inward Investment Promotion in the USA”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [timing of the European Council: UK budget problem discussion] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 May 16 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN
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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).

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