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Text 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Rees PS letter to Fowler PS (NHS finance) [summary of agreements reached following Fowler/Rees meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Maintaining the Strength of the Science Base") [proposal for "increase in the Science Vote which might be funded by savings in Defence R & D"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Maintaining the Strength of the Science Base") [proposal for increase in the Science Vote to be funded by savings in Defence R & D] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine, Turkish Foreign Minister Turkmen) [a possible declaration of independence by the Turkish Cypriots] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine, Turkish Prime Minister Ulusu) [the political situation in Turkey; bilateral relations between Britain and Turkey; Cyprus] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Campbell-Savours MP (Moscow Group for the Establishment of Trust Between the USSR and the US) [reported arrests and prevention of MT's reply to the Group being handed over] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("China") [Heath, Deng Xiaoping records of conversations on 6th and 10th September 1983] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Visit of Defence Secretary: Cyprus”) [Turkmen thought “UDI would not be a tragedy”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“CHOGM: attendance by the Fijian Prime Minister”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rees minute to MT (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: MT message to Prime Minister Chin Lee Chong ("New Korean Prime Minister") [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas prices") ["A rise of 6 per cent... as proposed by the Chancellor, would be consistent with the decisions reached at the Prime Minister's meeting of 13 September 1983 to maintain gas prices in real terms"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Walters minute to MT ("FCO bid for increased Aid programme") ["It would be extraordinarily quixotic for us, one of the poorer nations in the developed world, to continue with IDA contributions when the richest nation has ceased to do so"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure; Mansion House speech to place greater emphasis on monetary base rather than M1 as an indicator] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: MT letter to King Fahd (visit of Prince Turki al Faisal) [thanks for visit; concern regarding inaccurate BBC news report; Lebanon] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Objectives for the Chairman of British Rail") [comments on revised draft objectives] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("UK attitude towards Disarmament at the UNGA") ["the approach we should adopt... a brief account of where matters now stand"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Civil Service Manpower") ["I have now agreed... target [reduction] figures... The outstanding issue is civilian manpower in the Ministry of Defence"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT message to Prime Minister Hawke ("CHOGM Australian Prime Minister") [Heads of Government meeting in Goa & New Delhi: MT proposes bilateral meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Caldecote, David Trippier) [Loan Guarantee Scheme; Business Expansion Scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (“The Stock Exchange Changes”) [need to “capitalise on the radical nature of the deal and the likely changes”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Conservative Research Department briefing (“The Restrictive Trade Practices (Stock Exchange) Bill - Second Reading”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Armstrong minute for MT (“Anglo-French Summit”) [the dates of the 1984 Economic Summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute for MT (“Visit of President Mitterrand”) [British-French bilaterals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: FCO draft game plan (“Anglo-French Summit, 20-21 October 1983”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Mount minute to MT ("English Rate Support Grant") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Turnbull minute to MT (Rate Support Grant discussion) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("English Rate Support Grant Settlement 1984-85: Aggregate Exchequer Grant and Holdback") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Korea: MT letter to Prime Minister Chin of South Korea (congratulations on appointment as Prime Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (MT requests pre-CHOGM meeting with Hawke) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Saudi Arabia: MT letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (inaccurate BBC news item on Arabic Persian Services) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (thanks for New Zealand Navy's assistance with joint patrol operations) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Nick Ridley PS (“Ministerial Changes”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Armstrong minute for Coles (“Anglo-German Consultations: 8-9 November 1983”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT letter to Derek Conway (Supply of tank engines to Iran) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to New Zealand PM Muldoon (Operation Armilla: Royal New Zealand Navy participation) [MT expresses thanks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [UK lobbies European partners] [declassified 2013]
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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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