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PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (“The Stock Exchange & the Gower Report”) [“concerned about the proposals in the Gower Report”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 notes for DTI (“Investor Protection”) [“three key flaws in the Gower approach”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (talk with Eddie George) [future of gilt-edged market; funding; equity sales] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Governor Bank of England to MT (“Securities Regulation”) [proposes senior City figures form an advisory group to give him their views] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Regulation of Securities Industry”) [approves Governor’s initiative; closes no options for government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (Governor’s proposed group) [welcome, but avoid associating government with it] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Turnbull minute to MT (“Securities Regulation”) [“I detect some ill feeling in the Treasury about this letter … a deal between the Bank and DTI without bringing them in”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT to Governor Bank of England (his proposed group) [notes he has agreed with DTI and Treasury that group should not bind government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT ("Tilting at Castles") ["fairytale" on reform of the stock exchange] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (dinner with Stock Exchange chairman & council) [still somewhat divided on its future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) City: No.10 minute for MT (“Lunch with Barings”) [briefing & background] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute for MT (“Commercial Fraud”) [proposed Fraud Investigation Group] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood & Willetts minute to MT (“The City”) [overview of policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit letter to Lawson (“Commercial Fraud”) [supports Fraud Investigation Group but concerned at delay] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit letter to Lawson (“Financial Services: A New Policy”) [summary of policy objectives prior to meeting on 11 July] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI letter to Treasury (“Financial Services”) [background paper for Lawson, Tebbit & Goodison meeting tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Financial Services Debate”) [policy agreed at meeting with Lawson & Governor] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Conservative Research Department briefing (debate on Gower Report) [backgound] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Financial Services”) [has decided “self-regulation within a statutory framework is my preferred approach”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Willetts minute to MT (“Financial Services”) [explains Tebbit plan; suggests MT ask reassurance on five points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (“Financial Services”) [MT seeks reassurance on five points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Willetts minute to MT (“Financial Services”) [summary of plan due to be announced tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI letter to No.10 (“Financial Services”) [replies on five points raised by No.10] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (“Financial Services”) [MT raises three more points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Hobson minute for Redwood (“Fraud” [at Lloyds]) [conversation with Ian Hay-Davison] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Financial Services White Paper”) [main features] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (“Financial Services White Paper”) [excellent; will talk with him further] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Financial Services White Paper”) [attaches draft] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Hailsham letter to Tebbit (“White Paper on Financial Services”) [reservations] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (“Financial Services White Paper”) [Tebbit’s “sensible compromise will be attacked from both sides”] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Turnbull minute to MT (“Financial Services White Paper”) [Redwood & Hailsham minutes] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit letter to Hailsham (“White Paper on Financial Services”) [responds to his reservations] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to Tebbit (“White Paper on Financial Services”) [Treasury points] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (“Lunch at Lloyds”) [subjects to raise; DTI briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bank of England letter to Turnbull (“Lunch at Lloyd’s”) [“Lloyd’s will need a Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman who is independent of the market”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI to Lord Privy Seal’s Office (statement to Commons & press notice) [final drafts] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Press Office minute to MT (lunch at Lloyd’s) [arrangements for visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Tebbit PS briefing for MT (Lunch at Lloyd’s) [future role of the Chief Executive] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Turnbull (“Lloyd’s”) [“Disciplinary proceedings have been taken against certain members, and others are pending”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Lunch at Lloyd’s”) [issue of Chief Executive position] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of Lloyd’s, Chief Executive of Lloyd’s) [MT: “essential for Lloyd’s not only to eliminate malpractice but to be seen to have done so”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) City: Sir Nicholas Goodison speech to Insurance Institute of London (regulation of financial services in UK) [White Paper proposals]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to MT (“Disclosure & Gilts”) [legal liabilities & advance knowledge of tax changes] [released 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (“Disclosure & Gilts”) [Bank of England concerns that tax changes could undermine funding programme via disclosure requirements] [released 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to MT (“Disclosure & Gilts”) [solution] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to MT (“CGT Exemption of Gilts & Qualifying Corporate Bonds”) [legal changes] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood article (“Big Bang”) [powerful forces reshaping financial industry] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Take-over Panel”) [keep on a non-statutory basis] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Take-over Panel”) [at least create contingency plan for statutory basis] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Financial Services Bill: International Reciprocity”) [proposes clause to deny access to UK market to firms from countries not granting it to UK firms] [released 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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