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PDF 79 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to MT ("The Prime Minister's Office") [brief account of organisation and functioning of No.10] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Bancroft minute to No.10 (machinery of government) [covering note for papers on possible merger of departments] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for new PM ("East-West relations") [top copy annotated by MT; other foreign policy and defence briefing] declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Bancroft minute to No.10 ("Submissions for the Prime Minister") [briefing on Special Advisers; ministerial travel; official residences; public appointments] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Pay and cash limits") [financial waste in the public sector] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute for MT (briefing from Hunt and Bancroft) [partial copies] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Sino-British relations”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Karamanlis ("Signature of Greek Accession Treaty") [UK representation at the ceremony] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Talk with Dr. Brzezinski”) [John Hunt: nuclear policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Gilmour-Sir John Aitken) ["Intelligence Briefing: C.T.B. and Chemical Warfare"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("International Monetary Fund") ["annual consultation with the UK": outline of what the exercise will involve] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Gilmour letter to St John-Stevas ("Greek Treaty of Accession to the EEC") ["We now have to consider how to make the changes in UK law necessary so that the UK can ratify this treaty"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (Port of London Authority) [threat of industrial action] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Waste") [NHS; MT: "I have the impression that there is no determination to get to grips with the problem"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1396 to FCO (2305Z) ("Rhodesia: Presidential Determination") [text of statement by President Carter outlining his reasons for being unwilling to lift sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Defence sales to China: future policy”) [reactions of COCOM partners] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia") [Senator Helms' request for a private meeting with MT, ostensibly on the authority of President Carter] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: No.10 letter to Treasury (corporate stock relief, Corporation Tax, and a standard of living index) [MT request for further information on all three] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with President Carter”) [Economic Summit, Tokyo] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1740 to FCO (0420Z) ("Rhodesia") [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Karamanlis letter to MT (accession of Greece to the EC) [thanks for UK support] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Senator Jesse Helms on the Prime Minister, Wednesday 4 July") [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jesse Helms, John Carbaugh) [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (Cabinet and committee papers) [guidance] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: John Carbaugh letter to MT (Meeting with Senator Helms) [Helms' assistant conveys thanks to MT for meeting with Helms; Rhodesia; Salt II; request that MT meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms and Mr. Carbaugh") [MT concurs with Helms that US oral assurance over SALT II are insufficient; unwilling to take up his proposal to meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“British nuclear test programme”) [implications of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to Lord Rhodes (Parliamentary delegation to China) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to William A. de Vigier (Parliamentary delegation to China) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("IMF: 1979 Article IV Consultation") ["[IMF] commendation of the policy underlying the Budget"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Karamanlis (accession of Greece to the EC) [congratulations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms") [MT agrees to details of her recent conversation being shared with UK Ambassador Henderson, following divulgence of details to US press, despite No. 10 requests to FCO for confidentiality] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“Defence sales”) [reactions of COCOM partners] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Heseltine minute to MT (“Economic Planning Councils”) [MT approves abolition] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell minute to MT ("Future Offshore Licensing") ["now ready with proposals to implement our declared policy of the momemtum of exploration and encouraging the greater involvement of the private sector"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Cabinet Office efficiency savings) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Edwards minute to MT (“Welsh Council”) [MT content with proposed abolition of economic planning council] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Heseltine PS letter to Joseph PS (abolition of Economic Planning Councils) [Joseph statement to Parliament] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [new Tax and Price Index & other probable discussion points] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The New Tax and Price Index (TPI)") [key purpose; pros & cons; proposed launch date; presentation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT ("London Flooding") [contingency arrangements for dealing with a Thames flood] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["The New Tax and Price Index": MT approves go-ahead] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The New Tax and Price Index (TPI)") [key points; presentation; wage bargaining] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: No.10 minute to MT ("The Tax and Price Index") ["likely to be greeted with a good deal of scepticism... presentation... will have to be careful and well thought out"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: Prior PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("New Tax and Price Index") ["Len Murray... arguing... [for] full consultation with the TUC"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Nott to Howe (“Stock Exchange”) [grants his main points; makes detailed proposals] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soames, Channon) [efficiency savings] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [stresses urgency of need for sanctions to be lifted if Muzorewa Government is not to fall] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Caroline Stephens note to Michael Alexander (John Carbaugh, Assistant to Senator Jesse Helm: request for meeting with the Prime Minister) ["will not take no for an answer"] [released Aug 2013]

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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).

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