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PDF 88 Apr 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: DTI letter to No.10 ("Single Market Campaign: Lancaster House Conference") [suggests cutting material in MT speech critical of ideas for European Union, for fear of provoking Delors, speaking 10 minutes after her] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas memo for MT ("Notes for discussion with the Prime Minister") [federalist original thinking done 30 years or more ago; "The "Europe of Nations" has never been carefully worked out, to my knowledge. We could be at a turning point in our history"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Whittingdale record of conversation (MT-Hugh Thomas preparatory discussion on speech) ["must be positive in order to knock down federalist ideas ... United Europe but not European Union"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jul 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Jimmy Young Show: European Community") ["your struggle to make Europe less theoretical and more practical ..." increasing bureaucracy "is the SOCIALIST way"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Aug 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell first draft for MT ("Version 1") [42pp, not annotated by MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Aug 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell first draft for MT ("Version 2") [56pp, slightly annotated by MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Aug 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Speech on Europe") ["opportunity to set out your views on Europe's future, focussing mainly but not exclusively on the EC"; encloses "very much a first draft"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Bruges Speech") [autocue] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: MT speaking text (69pp set out for autocue) [late additions in pen] [released Jul 2018]
Text 88 Sep 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech")
PDF 88 Sep 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT (Bruges Speech) [hopes she will read two good articles about the speech in The Economist] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European Community: Extension of Commission powers and competence") [need to "be prepared to 'terrorise' the Commission politically on the lines of the Bruges speech"] [released Jul 2018]
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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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