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Text 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 777 to FCO (0008Z) ("Falkland Islands: Contingency Planning at the UN") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 768 to FCO (0017Z) (Secretary-General's statement) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 56 to UKE Luxembourg (0130Z) ("Falklands: European Community Embargo") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.135 ("Visit of HM King Hassan II of Morocco") (visit postponed) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Jimmy Young Programme") [briefing for interview] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0600Z) (0700, 18 May 1982) [status of UN-led peace talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 37th (0830Z) (Diplomatic and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Nott memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 55 (Falkland Islands Landing Operations - Public Presentation) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of meeting of the Information Group on the Falklands (0900Z) [media and related issues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 423 to UKMIS New York (0900Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter for Michael Foot MP (Falklands debate in the House of Commons) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MT letter to Michael Foot (Falkland Islands) ["The Government is doing all it can to secure a negotiated solution to the Falklands dispute"]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Michael Foot (role of Parliament in decisions about peace settlement and military escalation) ["it is for the Government to take the necessary decisions and then to answer to the House for its actions"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to John Cope MP (concern about television and radio coverage of Falklands dispute) ["The media in this country are free to broadcast what they wish without government interference"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to Chairman of the Franco-British Council (Franco-British Council dinner, 15th May 1982) [letter of thanks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: MT message to Mitterrand ("30 May Mandate") [EC Budget negotiations: MT objects to proposed vote on Agriculture proposals: "I do not believe that you intend to destroy the Luxembourg compromise by allowing this vote to occur"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO ("Argentine Terrorism") [Hugh Thomas warning of interview on Argentine TV] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands: Pressure on President Galtieri") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: Public Presentation of our Final Position") [draft note British position to be made available to Parliament] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands") [draft opening speech for MT's use in Commons debate] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr. Muldoon to London Wednesday 19 May 1982") [Falklands, bilateral relations, sporting contacts, air services, trade, defence, east/west relations, MFO, Iran/Iraq] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Lieutenant Commander Astiz") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Archbishop Huddleston letter to MT (appeal for help: death sentences in South Africa) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Cockfield minute to MT (Cockfield to reconsider decision not to licence British Midland Airways to operate London-Glasgow services) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hugh Thomas note to No.10 (Argentine terrorism) [threats by Montonero terrorist, Firminich] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Havers letter to MT ("Falkland Islands: Draft Interim Agreement - Note on Last Sentence of Article 6(3)") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka letter to MT (International Year of Shelter for the Homeless) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ian Gow minute to Lord Cazyer (Alan Walters) [“we may not be able to keep him beyond the end of March next year”] [released 2017]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Treasury ("Withstanding a Docks Strike") [membership of MISC 78 Official Group] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to South Atlantic Presentation Unit (Falklands: MT's interview on IRN Radio; Pym's statement to the press in Luxembourg; the Falkland Islands Company) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 21 (MT interview with IRN Radio, Pym's press statement, Falkland Islands Company) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Hancock minute to Coles ("Community Budget Problem") [EC Budget negotiations: response to overriding of UK veto; MT: "I think we need a more robust response than this"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS letter to Parkinson PS ("Falklands: public presentation") [sends document on "Falklands PR policy"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Chief of Public Relations MOD ("Public relations - Falkland Islands") ["You are in full charge", but Deputy CPR would continue to act as "our main - though not invariably exclusive - spokesman"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Assistant Under-Secretary ("Falklands: news release policy") [establishes News Release Group "to decide what current operational information should be made available to the press and to FCO posts for dissemination overseas"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Premadasa letter to MT (International Year of Shelter for the Homeless) [anticipation of UK support for 1987 activities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chief of Public Relations minute to Nott PS ("BBC interview requests") [case for accepting bid from BBC The World This Weekend] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 27th (1000Z) (Falkland Islands, Sporting Contacts with Argentina) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 24 (The Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 52nd Meeting/82 (1020Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required) [declassified 2012]
Text 82 May 18 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z)
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 769 to FCO (1420Z) ("Falklands") [second copy seen by MT] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 769 to FCO (1420Z) ("Falklands: Interim Agreement") [Parsons reports on further talks with UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram 1987 to FCO (1438Z) ("Falklands: European Community Embargo") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram 1988 to FCO (1439Z) ("Falklands: European Community Embargo") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (1445Z) (MT, Younger) [“Invergordon smelter: assistance for a potential new operator”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 281 to FCO (1510Z) ("Falklands and Gibraltar") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram to State Department (1530Z) ("Secretary's Bilateral with Italian FonMin Colombo") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKREP Brussels 1992 to FCO (1654Z) ("Agriculture Council: 18 May 1982") [EC Budget negotiations: account of meeting: UK veto overridden] [declassified 2012]

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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