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Date range: 18 Dec 198424 Dec 1984. Document type: Declassified documents.

Showing items 101 - 145 of 145.

PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Tornados for Turkey") [cover note for UKE Ankara telegram indicating that the Turkish army does not have the de facto autonomy over military expenditure that British Aerospace believes it to have] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 2180 to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [need to show Saudis that UK emphasising concern to US government about Arab/Israeli dispute, if Tornado deal to be saved; Howe advising MT message to King Fahd, and Ambassador Wright call Prince Bandar after MT talks with Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("ATP Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") ["no justification for any increase in ECGD's total exposure in Turkey, [but] I will not stand out against the relatively small increase... you propose"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Reagan letter to MT (civil aviation) [anti-trust suits, competition] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 21 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) [requests approval for policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Exploitation of Research Council inventions”) [“such an emormous step from the present protective bureaucracy would not be wise”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: John Butcher minute to MT (“IT skills shortages”) [“the DTI and I have been so anxious to concentrate on securing additional resources from the private sector”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“The case for an increase in IT graduates has been pressed on me vigorously by the economic departments”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [125K scanned image]
Text 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& briefing) (civil aviation) [declassified 2000]
Text 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Northern Ireland: US State Department briefing on Doherty case (US extradition rules) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Adelman memo for President Reagan (chemical weapons) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Handling of Certain Civil Aviation Matters”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Transport minute to Treasury (“British Airways: Laker Liquidator’s Suit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Governor letter to David Owen (rescue operation for Johnson Matthey Bankers) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Johnson Matthey Bankers letter to The Times (Johnson Matthey Bankers affair & David Owen’s open letter) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Foulkes MP letter to MT (General Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“New burdens on local government”) [reducing burdens to reduce expenditure] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT message to Reagan (account of MT's meeting with Gorbachev) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: No.10 briefing cards (“Talks with President Reagan”) [“Must convince Russians we are not aggressive and that we respect their security interests - they must respect ours”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1030 hours”) [tête-à-tête on Gorbachev, SDI] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT engagement card (Camp David visit) [times, meetings, locations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1120 hours”) [plenary on SDI] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to Reagan (account of MT's meeting with Gorbachev) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Strategic Defence Initiative, civil aviation, US economy, Middle East, famine in Africa, UK-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Dec 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Camp David Declaration (draft) [declassified ?2000] [23K scanned image]
Text 84 Dec 23 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to MOD ("Type 22 Frigates") [Heseltine's proposal to award Frigate contract to Cammell Laird: MT suggests further Cabinet discussion but agrees that 'courage' of Cammell Laird workers 'must be recognised'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington: 21/22 December 1984") [Strategic Defence Initiative: statement to press] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Vice-President Bush) [Hong Kong Agreement; Taiwan; Chinese leadership; MT report on her meeting with Gorbachev; Strategic Defence Initiative] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 23 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (FBI) US: FBI memorandum (“Threat against British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher”) [Camp David visit] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to General Secretary Hu Yaobang (Visit to Beijing) [success of visit; Lord Young's trade mission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Peter Rees PS ("The late Kenneth Whitty") [assassination & death in service: compensation for widow; MT concern that "no allowance for future inflation appears to have been made"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Efram Yankelevich (the Sakharovs) [report on Gorbachev's response to intercession by MT & Howe] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (thanks for visit to Camp David) ["a rare privilege ... very helpful to hear your thinking on some of the issues which will come up in your second term, particularly the Strategic Defence Initiative"] [declassified Jul 2023]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (thanks for visit to Camp David) ["I found our discussion and the agreed conclusions we reached very valuable"] [declassified Jul 2023]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Bermuda: MT letter to Premier John Swan of Bermuda (US mutual assistance treaty) [requests information on “aims and objectives”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President of the European Parliament (European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December 1984) ["...productive..."] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price letter to MT (thanks for help with transport) [“I have always known you to excel at whatever you do”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: MT letter to Premier Zhao Ziyang (Joint Declaration) [personal signing greatly reassured HK] [released 2014]
Text 84 Dec 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC memorandum for McFarlane ("The President's Meeting with Mrs Thatcher: Gorbachev") [MT's impressions] [declassified 2000]

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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