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PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office minute for MT (week coming) [Washington visit, dollar/sterling, phone-tapping, coal strike stalemate] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“The Government’s record since 1979” & “The Transport Bill - Bus Deregulation”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold to Alison (“help!”) [press cuttings: impact of Scottish rating revaluation] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest) [“The state of the pound/dollar in the wake of your Washington visit and the extent of the return to work in the coal strike are the two main issues”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (coal strike) [record return to work] released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (sterling) [“£ perks up late in the day as dollar slid following remarks by Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed, and good UK trade figures”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Turnbull minute (Scottish rates revaluation) [Goold “now accepts that the revaluation cannot be postponed”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (sterling) [“Some papers link the return of more than 50 percent of miners and the pound’s bounce back as a ‘double dose of joy’ for you”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: Letwin minute (“Education: Further Information”) [teachers’s pay, exam reform, non-teaching costs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Alliance: Sherbourne minute for MT ( Times articles on the Alliance) [three part series by George Brock] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Wybrew minute for MT (“Coal Dispute”) [advantages of a return to work without agreement; Turnbull cover note] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes (remarks on end of strike) [“Investment halted/Now start/No compulsory redundancies”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: No.10 note for MT (end of strike) [Walker & Ingham need to speak with you; Sherbourne sends congratulations] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Michael Alison note to MT (anonymous letter from Yorkshire woman) [“thank you for not letting the lights go out … I was dreading light candles & filling hot water bottles”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: David Barclay to MT (departing Private Secretary) [“the greatest privilege to work for you”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [“The situation is becoming more serious by the minute”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Liaison committee) [upcoming events] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Gordon Reece to MT (conversation with Larry Lamb) [ways to improve British PR in the US] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Flesher minute for MT ("Drinks with ACPO" - senior police) [they had cold feet last summer for fear of over close identification with govenment during strike; ok now strike over] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: MT note on Kinnock (report of Kinnock visit to NATO) [“Pushover for the Soviets”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Leon Brittan to MT (lunch with Archbishop & Terry Waite) [very helpful to have Waite’s insights into Libyan activities] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT letter to Lord Hanson (end of strike) ["We have shattered the myth that the miners can always bring a government down"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT reply to written question (“main achievement of HMG since June 1983&rdquo)
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: No.10 note for MT (Airey Neave) [“You said you wished to send flowers to his grave whilst you were Prime Minister”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [rate relief announcement “has done little to stem the flow of critical hostility towards the Party”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for Whitelaw (“Economic & Social Policy Presentation: Chairman’s Brief”) [meeting on 25 March to discuss follow up to budget] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alison speech in Selby (Conservative Association AGM) [response to miners’ strike has been “a resurgence in Britain of a national sense of self-confidence and unity”]
PDF 85 Mar 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Michael Alison to Eldon Griffiths (thanks for not publishing letter on SDI) [Howe speech] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Scottish Office briefing (meeting with Scottish backbench Conservatives) [rates revaluation “has in many cases affected individual authorities and individual taxpayers significantly”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: John Redwood minute for MT (“Currencies and Economies”) [dollar turning down] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alison note for MT (talk with Michael Eaton) [possible appointment to NCB Board; ways to keep him in London] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [need to “save the situation in Scotland”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Education & Jobs” & “Education & Training for Young People”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 82/83”) [“a gradual movement towards a small Labour lead”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [“we are now losing practically every local government by-election”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Alison note (Bill Deedes on Daily Telegraph ) [financial restructuring of newspaper; Peter Rawlinson to join board] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Vice-President George Bush card to MT (sends copy of her address to Congress) [“some day I will get up my nerve to say Margaret”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 84”) [Gallup poll “effectively found the Labour and Conservative parties ‘neck and neck’”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: MT letter to Donald Maclean (Scottish rates revaluation) [“these rate increases emphasise the weaknesses in the present system of local government finance”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: NUCAS minutes (Executive Committee meeting) [Central Council meeting, transport, property review, Standing Review Committee, Social Affairs Forum, Federation of Conservative Students, county council elections, party conference] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison minute to MT (“Monday Lunches”) [lunches with cabinet colleagues - suggested attendees, arrangements] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 85”) [2.5 percent fall in Conservative support] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Scottish Office letter to No.10 (draft conference speech material on rates) [MT & Younger drafts] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Scottish Party Conference: Friday 10th May”) [drafting, especially on rates] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 86”) [Gallup pre-local election poll: “found nationally very little change in the level of support for the parties”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest for MT) [gas privatisation, VE Day, Reagan in Europe, GLC/MCC abolition, NUM trial, NACODS overtime ban, Welfare State cabinet, Scottish Conservatives] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: David Hart note for MT (“The Perth Speech, Argument”) [make a keynote speech] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Scottish Conservative Conference agenda (motions on rates) [extract] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: List of PPSs (“Parliamentary Private Secretaries”) [annotated by MT during preparation for September 1985 reshuffle] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Ingham minute for MT ( Newsweek leadership poll) [MT voted best foreign leader 4th year in a row by vast margin] [released 2015]

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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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