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Text 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT ("Visit by the Indian Minister of Defence") [points to make; biog; background] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Tim Flesher minute to MT (possible lunch with Trudeau) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Statement on Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [comments on draft Tebbit statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Statement on Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [comments on draft DTI statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Cable and Wireless and British Telecom") [stipulation that Chair/Chief Executive of C&W be UK citizen: contravention of EEC Treaty] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chairman of British Nuclear Fuels PLC (opening of new Company Headquarters in Risley) [MT's preference to visit Capenhurst uranium enrichment plant instead; accepts invitation to open HQ on advice of officials, but still keen to try to fit in Capenhurst to her programme during visit to North West] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Papandreou) [situation in Cyprus, EC Athens summit and budget, Greece/Turkey, Lebanon] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Papandreou) [NATO, EC Athens summit, EC budget, European Parliament elections, Falklands UN resolution, arms control] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) [leak to 'Guardian' newspaper regarding Cruise deployment; MT decides against Attorney General instituting proceedings] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to No.10 (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [latest development] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to Coles (“Cyprus: Possible Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence”) [“we believe our reactions should be coloured by the need to be seen to fulfil our treaty obligations”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Public expenditure: Education - universities) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Heseltine, Rees) [“Public Expenditure Survey 1983: Defence”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Heseltine letter to Whitelaw (“Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 99): Defence programme”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“MISC 99: draft Report”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983: Defence”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("National Training Commission and related matters") [concerns about No.10 record of recent meeting, in regard to his Department's powers & responsibilities for further vocational education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Student grants") ["possible alternative packages": options] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Student Awards - alternative packages") [alternatives to Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (Public expenditure: universities) ["whether to endorse the proposed £50 million cut... in 1986/87 which the MISC 99 group is recommending"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Ulster Polytechnic bomb explosion") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to James Molyneaux MP (Prime Minister's letter of 31st October on her meeting with Taoiseach) [apology for letter's leak to press before receipt by Molyneaux] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: milk super-levy") ["While we, like the Irish, have expressed reservations about the super-levy, our respective positions are based on diametrically opposite strategic objectives"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit: possible Statement to the House of Commons") ["This will be the first Anglo-Irish Summit for two years, following a particularly difficult period in Anglo-Irish relations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Reagan (terrorist attacks on the Multi-National Forces) [retaliation & reconciliation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") ["The Prime Minister asked that thought be given to what our reaction should be if the US took retaliatory action following the bombing of their marine headquarters on 23 October"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Heseltine ("Cable Bill: the Question of Reserve Ministerial Powers") ["My conclusion is that we should not seek to take powers of this kind"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bundestag debate on INF: latest position") [deployment of missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") ["in light of your wish... that this should be treated as a routine matter... I have asked [David Trippier]... to make recommendations to me by the end of the year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lamont, Ian Stewart, John MacGregor, Michael Butler, David Williamson, Robert Armstrong) ["European Community: post-Stuttgart negotiations": EC Budget inequity; agriculture; new policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Autumn Statement and Public Expenditure White Paper") [proposals/options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Tebbit minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - more ambitious plan needed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (informed of MT decision to visit) [outline of plan] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (Bullard confirms MT decision to visit) [“I expressed our great joy”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Autumn Statement and Public Expenditure White Paper") [projection of net payments to EC; MT: "this year's figure turned out to be very embarrassing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3332 to FCO (0553Z) ("Grenada") ["The Americans continue to express regret about the lack of any adequate consultation"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Williamson minute to Coles ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations: Confidential Discussions with the French and Germans") [EC budget negotiations] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to Reagan (attack on US Marines barracks in Beirut) ["I was somewhat relieved to note that George Shultz made it clear that there would be no hasty reaction on your part by way of retaliation for the attacks on your Marines"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Soviet Union: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (MT receives delegation from World Conference on Soviet Jewry) ["Their words brought home to me once again the oppression your people suffer in the Soviet Union"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (thanks for letter) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ingham note to No.10 (The Crown Agents and the UK interest) [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Lebanon) [summary declassified 2000]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3308 to FCO (0445Z) (“US Middle East Policy”) [appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as the Middle East envoy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1851 to FCO (“American arms for Argentina”) [conversation between Oliver Wright and Kenneth Dam] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Gowrie) [funding for the Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Financial scrutiny of the Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company”) [Priestley report] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Daily Mail (Grenada, Cruise)
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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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