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PDF 84 Mar 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 1009 to FCO (0014Z) (“US economy: higher interest rates”) [“The expansion has resulted in a strong growth in the private demand for credit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to US Ambassador to West Germany (speech to the Industrie Club: ‘The American Trade Deficit in Perspective’) [MT: “applies your customary clarity & wisdom to the enormous issues that face us”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 11 to FCO (“Outlook for the US budget deficit: Chief Secretary’s visit to Washington”) [consensus that deficit reduction package will pass Congress but deficit still likely post-November elections] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Littler minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“New York meeting of bankers”) [“Discussion focussed heavily on problems of management of the maturities and interest costs of commercial debt”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note to MT (Continental Illinois rescue) [“There was no detectable reaction in the foreign exchange markets where the Gulf was the dominant factor”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Chairman of BL PLC letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [“We are mobilising opinion among United States owners and dealers who support our position”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [legislation “would clearly discriminate against higher priced imported cars”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“US proposals to limit tax benefits on company cars”) [advises MT not write formally to Reagan but issue should be flagged with White House] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Turnbull (“US proposals on company cars”) [“this particular measure is protectionist”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (“US Proposals To Limit Tax Benefits on Company Cars”) [MT cannot raise the issue bilaterally with Reagan but is happy to sign a note] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [East/West relations - “Mrs Thatcher’s general impression was that the US Government was rather at a loss as to how to proceed”; Middle East; Central America; Northern Ireland; trade issues; Laker case] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Japanese Finance Minister Takeshita) [unitary tax, US deficit, international debt, Japanese capital markets, IDA supplemetary] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to US Embassy (US tax reform measures in relation to imported cars) [“not discriminatory”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy/US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“Feldstein’s parting shots”) [“How long can this awful trinity of high deficit, dollar and interest rates continue?”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [“your personal intervention with President Reagan was crucial in achieving amendments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 2151 to FCO (1535Z) (“1984 Democratic platform: growth, prosperity and jobs”) [“hardly sets out a coherent, let alone costed, economic programme”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 2271 to FCO (0125Z) (“US monetary policy”) [Volcker warning of slower growth, call for deficit reduction, relationship between deficits and interest rates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 2590 to FCO (2245Z) (“The US economy: movements in the leading index of economic indicators”) [two consecutive months of decline; a third would signal a downturn] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Alan Walters article (“Dollars and Deficits”) [“One tries not to think about the deficit. It is just too distressing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 2750 to FCO (1637Z) (“US economy: prospects for deficit reduction and tax reform”) [further deficit reduction next year unlikely, prospects for fundamental tax reform highly problematical] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders letter to MT (“Selective Distribution Block Exemption”) [“The regulation will place in the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels the right to be judge and jury over prices”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 29 to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for September”) [real GNP, consumer spending up; interest rates down; dollar surged] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“A banking crisis in the United States”) [“The balance sheets of US banks … are in a parlous state and cannot be quickly recapitalised”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3625 to FCO (2347Z) (“Shultz at Chevening: US trade policy”) [“The US external account has continued to deteriorate”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchquer, Paul Volcker) [US economy, deficit, banking system] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 88 to FCO (2310Z) (“US budget deficit: latest developments”) [administration faces “the prospect of presenting a budget dead on arrival in Congress”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 360 to FCO (0205Z) (“The United States FY86 Budget”) [“contains few surprises”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 463 to FCO (2352Z) (“US FY86 Budget: latest developments”) [Reagan’s “proposals are in for a rough ride and will be substantially altered by the Congress”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 511 to FCO (0626Z) (“Prime Minister’s visit - economic aspects”) [“there is no sense in the administration’s top echelons of emerging crisis or need for urgent action”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 152 to FCO (2315Z) (Regan statement on G5) [commitment to greater exchange market stability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Reaganomics”) [“appealing to his own political sense on what real high rates and large deficits are doing to his own domestic manufacturing base, and to the US banking system, may bring the message home”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“US economic policy”) [“It is a time when painful decisions must be made”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 564 to FCO (0410Z) (“The Dollar”) [Treasury Secretary disquiet at recent rise in the Dollar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Treasury minute to No.10 (Volcker statement to Banking Committee) [“the progressive easing of reserve conditions had come to an end and open market operations were being conducted more cautiously”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 598 to FCO (2340Z) (“US monetary policy”) [end to progressive easing of monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington letter to Treasury (Volcker testimony to House Banking Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee) [“we are in a real sense living on borrowed money and time”] [declassified 2014]

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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