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PDF 76 Oct 1 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Labour: Hailsham diary (Brian Walden offers support to bring down government) [coded entry with translation]
PDF 78 Jul 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: MT letter to Sir Ian Trethowan (BBC urges General Election TV debate with PM) [asks for detail] [released 2003]
PDF 78 Aug 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Thorneycroft meeting with BBC (BBC urges General Election TV debate with PM) [sees problems] [released 2003]
PDF 79 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: MT letter to David Cox (rejects General Election TV debate with PM) [“We are not electing a President, we are choosing a government”] [released 2003]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Michael Cole letter to MT (hopes to conduct first interview with her as PM) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Gordon Reece minute for Caroline Stephens (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [suggests should be after Queen’s Speech] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to Richard Ryder (MT at Tokyo G7) [MT’s first interview since General Election] [declassified 2009]
Text 79 Jul 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 79 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: McQuillan minute to FCO Departments (BBC External Service cuts) [ministers want to protect World Service and broadcasts to Communist countries] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Bullard minute on BBC External Services (FCO proposals for cuts) [“Experience has made me suspicious of the BBC’s own figures”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Richard Ryder to David Boddy (complaining against BBC) [predicts an avalanche] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: David Boddy letter to Richard Ryder (complaining against BBC) [procedure] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [now is the time] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Sep 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute to MT (encloses transcript of Monday’s Panorama ) [MT: “I really think we should protest officially”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to No.10 Press Secretary (Henry James) (ITV strike) [no chance of LWT being on air for interview this Sunday] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: NSC minute (cuts to BBC External Services) [BBC approach to US Government for help resisting] [declassified 1999]
PDF 79 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (chairmanship of BBC Governors) [Swann resigning] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Sir Ian Gilmour letter to MT (BBC External Service cuts) [cuts reduced by one third] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 (BBC External Service cuts) [FCO cuts yet to come] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (BBC External Services, immigration, Northern Ireland, gas prices) [no retreat on BBC cuts - “the disposition of the Government was not to revise its decisions”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia - enabling legislation, Polaris, BBC cuts, mortgage rates) [Rhodesia legislation to be passed “abnormally quickly”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (recommends PM go on tv) [“Nothing happened”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC (79) 20th (Rhodesia, EC, Public Spending, News Presentation, etc) [declassified 2009]
Text 79 Nov 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (BBC, Rhodesia, Rolls-Royce, etc) [Carrickmore filming - BBC ‘blunderama’] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute for MT (BBC External Services - Commons debate 13 Nov) [“receiving exceptionally favourable treatment”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia, Rolls-Royce, Immigration, BBC) [BBC Panorama & IRA] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (10-12 Nov) (economy, Rhodesia, Iran, etc) [possible MLR increase to record level] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: David Boddy minute to Thorneycroft and others (October radio & tv) [calculation of political balance] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to MT (PPB slot available 21 Nov) [“If you considered this an appropriate moment to talk to the electorate”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (17-19 Nov) (Blunt, Iran, Rhodesia, etc) [repercussions of Blunt dominated weekend press] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Richard Ryder (audience figures for British tv & radio news) [“since the strike ... ITV have shown a considerable down turn”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gladstone minute on BBC External Services (lunch at Bush House) [vital FCO/BBC be on same side next time; BBC to lay on “suitable claret”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Thatcher family Chequers Christmas details) [from “Rudolph the red-nosed press officer”] [released 2010]
Text 80 Jan 6 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World
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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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