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Text 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Barney Hayhoe minute to MT ("Publication of Rayner Scrutiny Reports on the Customs Attendance (1981) and the Processing of Customs Import Entries (1982)") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("H Committee") [revised version of Police and Criminal Evidence Bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Follow-up to Seminar on Industry and Employment") ["arrangements for chasing up action": proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit of Iraqi First Deputy Prime Minister") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation (Channon-Iraqi Trade Minister, Hassan Ali) [UK-Iraqi trade; Kier contract] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe telegram to UKHC New Delhi (Denis Thatcher: industry & business engagements) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Biffen PS (Prime Minister's Questions) [stand-in for MT while out of the country] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees minute to MT ("Raising standards in schools") [Keith Joseph proposal/bid "poses serious difficulties... I frankly doubt whether we could really trust the employers to make candid assessments of the performance of their staff and back their judgement in public by pay differentials and disciplinary decisions"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (comparative costs of activities in education) [data requested for MT speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (German agriculture) [Jopling PS: "The letter illustrates some of the confusion which is unfortunately to be found in German, and indeed some other member state, thinking about the supposed virtues of small farmers... not economically sound"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: No.10 briefing for MT (CBI presentation on Pay and Productivity) [key points to raise at confidential meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Energy ("Withstanding a strike in the gas industry") [nominations for Official Group] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(A) discussion of Regional Policy") [objectives for the meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Edwards letter to Rees ("Review of Regional Economic Policy") ["it is mistaken to assume that the benefit... is just social and political] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of Regional Economic Policy") [background & advice on conclusions to be reached in the meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: King minute to MT ("Brief for Chairman of BR") [revised draft; proposal to publish brief and make statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2887 to FCO (2259Z) ("INF") ["Russians have been continuing to threaten to interrupt the negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2878 to FCO (2007Z) ("INF") ["The Bundestag debate... [risks] becoming a fulcrum on which... deployment in all three basing countries would depend"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to Heseltine ("INF") [Howe opposed to Heseltine's inclination to comply with West German request to postpone delivery of ground-launched cruise missiles; No.10 notes that the minute raises issues requiring further discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Herr Schmidt’s Call on the Prime Minister: 7 October”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO briefing for MT (“Call on the Prime Minister by Herr Helmut Schmidt”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (Tax Legislation: Mr. Peter Rowland) [summary of correspondence with Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa despatch ("The Prime Minister's Visit to Canada: 25 to 28 September 1983") [account of visit] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Shepherd minute to MT ("Your Visit to Sainsbury's, Nine Elms") [arrangements for visit] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (agriculture in Europe: German agriculture) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libera: MT letter to Samuel Doe of Liberia (aid for Liberia) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“PSA: Wardale/Touche Ross (WTR) Report on Irregularities”) [MT keen that Property Services Agency restructuring not be delayed by publication of the report and reform of management] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Anglo-South African Relations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Summary of Governor’s address to LEGCO on 5 October”) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Xinhua commentary”) [Chinese media interpreting MT comments as intention to continue ‘colonial’ rule] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Parsons minute to Coles (“Hong Kong”) [“Hong Kong is not the Falklands”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Heseltine, Luce, Armstrong, Acland, Cradock, Donald, Parsons) [negotiations with China] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Hong Kong: call by Governor and Unofficial Members of the Executive Council, 7 October 1983”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [setting up of sub-committee to supervise negotiations with the Chinese] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Oct 5 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech unveiling Regent’s Park Memorial Plaque (IRA bomb)
CD only 83 Oct 5 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Written Statement of support for Cecil Parkinson (Keays affair)
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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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