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PDF 81 Jul 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ian Gow letter to Nigel Fisher (MT spech to 1922 committee) [thanks for writing in encouraging terms] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Jul 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT to Cranley Onslow (government policy) [“we all need to give a message of hope to the country”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT to Michael Jopling (dinner with Whips) [thanks “for all that each and every one of you have done to sustain the Government during a specially arduous session”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: Ian Gow letter to Tristan Garel-Jones (Gibraltar) [disagreements with Spain over Gibraltar] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Lord Kilmany (petrol tax rebellion) [“the money needed to finance public expenditure had to be raised”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: MT to Lord Marsh (seat in Lords) [intention to sit cross-bench, “it will not prevent you from speaking out with characteristic frankness as the occasion demands”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Ray Whitney (medium-term economic strategy) [remains and will remain government policy] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lord Thorneycroft circular (unemployment) [“No other party would attempt in any effective way whatever to interrupt this downward slide”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: MT to George Gardiner (reshuffle) [“the Government is anxious to reduce interest rates … We are still doing our utmost to reduce Government spending”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Ian Gow to MT (discussions with ministers) [“The real problem is to educate the Cabinet, many of whom are economically illiterate”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: MT to Stephen Hastings (government policy) [“July has been a tough month”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Keith Joseph minute to MT (unemployment) [how best to present government’s view] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Ian Gow minute to Ray Whitney (nationalised industry spending) [relationship with unions] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT (presentation of economic facts) [“we have not done enough yet to put over the basic reality of poor competitiveness as the key weakness in the British economy”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ian Gow to Edward Du Cann ( Observer article) [MT’s relationship with 1922 Committee] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) SDP: John Gummer paper (“The Tories and the Social Democrats”) [“the defection of the group of eight people is so serious a matter”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Alan Walters minute for Ian Gow (“Archie Hamilton, MP”) [“it is most unlikely that we shall not be in a sustained recovery phase during 1983”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Michael Pattison minute to MT (inner cities) [Anthony Sheen’s protest] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Government policy: Ian Gow to MT (Julian Amery warning) [economic issues facing the government: unemployment, inflation] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Ian Gow to Willie Rickett (Carron meeting) [Carron is an MP, should there be an offer of a ministerial meeting] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Derek Howe minute to Jeffrey Rooker (Croydon North-West by-election) [options on dates] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Housing: Ian Gow to Michael Ancram (“Sale of Council houses and flats - Glasgow District Council”) [Rifkind “is a most enthusiastic supporter of the policy”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ian Gow minute to Michael Jopling (Thorneycroft’s dismissal) [“I think that P.T. himself would confirm that he and I have become close personal and political friends”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: John Patten to Ian Gow (new Provost at Oriel College Oxford) [Gordon Richardson first choice] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ian Gow minute for MT (Conference) [booklet being prepared] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Ian Gow to Julian Amery (notes on government policy) [thanks for having taken trouble to write] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT to Lord Linlithgow (thanks for letter re: Ian Gilmour) [“I do so agree with you about what you called ‘the pragmatic approach’”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) SDP: Michael Jopling minute to Ian Gow (John Gummer think piece) [“There is a spirit abroad that suggests that the Social Democrats are the natural inheritors of all that is moderate in British Politics”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ian Gow to Alan Bristow (MT grateful for support) [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ian Gow to Hugh Dykes (lunch or dinner) [possible arrangements] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ian Gow to Jock Bruce-Gardyne (joining government) [financial implications, glad he is enjoying the work] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ian Gow minute (reshuffle) [“David Knox is, of course, beyond redemption”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Franz-Josef Strauss - German Elections”) [MT note: “Nothing must be said in my name”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: Anthony Royle record of conversation (MT-Jacques Chirac) [Chirac’s support for EDU] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: MT to James Douglas-Hamilton (retirement from Whips’ Office) [“Throughout your years in the Whips’ Office, we have had not only a happy Office, but also a happy Parliamentary Party”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Harry Boyne to Ian Gow (Heath speech) [“a sustained attack on the Government’s economic policy”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Tessa Jardine-Patterson to Sir Peter Scott (HMS Endurance) [withdrawal of the ship from the Falklands region] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: John Vereker minute for Michael Pattison (“Changing Gear”) [“harks back unashamedly to the Macmillan era of ‘the Middle Way’”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Alan Walters notes (Heath speech) [“The easiest way to see that Heath’s vicious circle is a piece of preposterous nonsense is to reverse it”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Ian Gow minute to MT (“Tam Galbraith”) [does not know he has a malignant tumour] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Michael Jopling to Ian Gow (correspondence with Patrick Cormack) [possible letter from backbenchers criticising government policy] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 20 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Elections: “Distant encounters of the Heath kind” (Heath campaigining for Conseravtives in Croydon by-election)
PDF 81 Oct 20 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economy: “A Hard winter” (Cabinet divisions over public spending plans)
PDF 81 Oct 20 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economy: “Rumblings of revolt among Tory dissidents” (meetings of wets to discucss how to put pressure on MT)
PDF 81 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) International development: Ian Gow to Michael Ancram (Brandt report) [Governemnt “iaccepts that the problems of the world economy are such as to deserve consideration at the highest level”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Keith Joseph minute to Ian Gow (Peter Bauer) [“a tour de force&rduqo;] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ian Gow minute to MT (“The Times - Wednesday 21st October”) [backbenchers “deeply disturbed at the continuing leaks from your Cabinet”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ian Gow minute for MT (“The Times - Wednesday 21st October”) [Hugh Fraser and other backbenchers “are deeply disturbed at the continuing leaks from your Cabinet”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Michael Jopling minute (committee elections) [timing, procedures, candidates] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ian Gow to Albert McQuarrie (attacks on MT’s policies) [Heath-led rebellion, need for “immediate and positive action”] [released 2017]

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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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