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PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior letter to Elles (Haagerup report) [“appreciation of all your efforts to secure a reasonably favourable outcome”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Northern Ireland prisons”) [“some prison officers were so intimidated by fear of attack outside the prison that they were turning a blind eye to some of the rules”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“New Ireland Forum”) [“The report is disappointing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FitzGerald letter to MT (New Ireland Forum report) [“an important event in the political development of this State and for our relations with you and indeed with Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Forum Report”) [“The Irish would like us to say very little and leave them to make the running”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to FitzGerald (New Ireland Forum report) [“We shall do our best to avoid saying things which could make it harder for you and us to continue the dialogue”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 2 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: James Lee transcripts of interviews with Prior (Forum report) [“we are prepared to discuss and look at any means whereby we can make some progress toward greater peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland”]
PDF 84 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Forum Report: Irish Political Comment”) [press conferences and statements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UUP paper (“The Way Forward”) [devolution and the Northern Ireland Assembly] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [post-Forum realities] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ulster Special Constabulary Association telegram to MT (situation) [“For goodness sake Mrs Thatcher, recognise the deficiencies, insucurity [sic] in Northern Ireland and do something about it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS note to FCO (Barry visit to London) [request to meet with Prior] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Political Development”) [“We have to recognise that any attempt at political advance carries risk, including a deterioration in security”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Alison record of conversation (Molyneaux-MT meeting) [MT “saw no possibility at present of extending the early timescale of the renewal Order”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS to No.10 (programme for Charles Powell) [draft itinerary] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [New Ireland Forum report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“options available to us in the light of Mr Nally’s approach”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Molyneaux minute to Alison (direct rule) [practicalities of renewal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall draft note for the record (No.10 meeting on policy) [Nally proposals on territorial integrity] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Department of Transport letter to Stuart Connolly (“United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland Land Border”) [post at Newry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ultey note to Alison (meeting with Prior) [response to Forum report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Coles (“Anglo-Irish Affairs: Northern Ireland”) [FitzGerald “prepared to seek to amend the territorial provisions of the Irish Constitution”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [amendments to Irish constitution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Ulster Special Constabulary Association”) [“There has been a steady build up in terrorist violence by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Coles (“Anglo-Irish Affairs: Visit by the Tanaiste”) [Spring “a figure of crucial importance in Dr Fitzgerald’s Coalition Government”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Mr Spring’s Visit to London”) [“it might be tactful to ofer a meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe or Mr Prior”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Goodall (“Anglo-Irish Affairs: Visit by the Tanaiste”) [MT unable to meet Spring] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [papers on “problems involved in any proposals for re-partition or re-drawing the boundaries of Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Anglo/Irish Relations”) [MT-FitzGerald bilateral: “damp down any public expectation of substantial developments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“European Council: Meeting with the Taoiseach”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Visit by Mr Spring”) [“he feels that a meeting with Mr Prior in these circumstances would attract undue publicity and attention”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (future of Ireland meetings) [Alison’s request to attend] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“Irish Govermment would be ready to have it solemnly declared and registered with the United Nations that there could be no change in the present position of Northern Ireland without the consent of a majority of the people of the Province”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [impact of proposed changes to Irish constitution] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Meeting with Irish Ambassador: 18 June 1984”) [Irish willingness to make constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Taylor letter to Butler (Danny Morrison’s possible election to European Parliament) [“the NIO have drawn attention to the risk of widening support for PIRA if we were seen to obstruct his duties”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Labour party press release (Kinnock-Spring joint statement) [support for New Ireland Forum report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [meeting “to assess the position reached in our secret exchanges with the Irish”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (No.10 meeting on Northern Ireland) [Irish constitution, re-partition, future action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Dr FitzGerald’s Visit to London on 27 June”) [Taoiseach’s “wish that Anglo-Irish relations should not become an object of party controversy in the United Kingdom”] [declassified 2014]
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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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