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PDF 90 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Maurice Fraser minute to John Whittingdale (EC policy items) [possible areas of difficulty] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (government) [conflicting views on the economy, Community Charge] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Eltham bomb comment) [civilians injured in IRA blast] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour Party policy) [fears over BSE spread, Gummer says beef is not a health risk] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (IRA, BSE, Ravenscraig) [Commons set up inquiry into BSE] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (ERM rumours, East-West, BSE) [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT ("Ravenscraig") ["The Scottish Party is in disarray"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Kenneth Baker minute to John Whittingdale (Jan Carnogursky) [wants to meet MT] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (John Wakeham) [a good weekend for the government, Labour's new policy document under attack] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (John Wakeham) [a good weekend for the government, Labour's new policy document under attack] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chelsea Flower Show) [Labour trying to distance itself from Militant] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Michael Forsyth minute to John Whittingdale ("Daily Record" cutting) [political difficulty in Scotland] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Summit comment, SDP Comment, China) [Gorbachev summit ends without agreement on Germany or NATO] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Summit, SDP/Owen) [general downbeat air about Summit outcome] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Gorbachev) [mounting troubles for Gorbachev, Anglo-Soviet relations] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (BSE) [beef war unresolved after EU discussions] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (World Cup, Your Tour) [reports that Soviet Union will trade united German membership of NATO for economic help] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (ERM, Germany) [when and on what terms UK might join ERM] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Germany, Soviet Union) [cold water poured on Gorbachev's idea of a united Germany belonging to both NATO and Warsaw pact] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Eastern Europe) [situation in Romania, Lithuania, Soviet economic plans] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Romania and East-West, Chunnel) [violence in Bucharest] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Eastern Europe) [escalating situation in Bucharest] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock's broadcast, Your broadcast) [Labour's tax policies] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hard ECU) [Major launches idea of ECU as alternative Euro currency] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: John Whittingdale briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Christopher Prout") [German unification, relations with other parties, EMU] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Calcutt, EMU) [aid to Soviets] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT ("Scotland") [reports that the "situation in Scotland is becoming desperate"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Dublin) [aid to Soviets, European union] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Rover) [Parkinson, Rifkind criticised over handling of nuclear power] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Andrew Turnbull minute for MT ("Scottish Rebels") [expected outcome on votes] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Rover) [subsidy ruling] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT ("Scotland") [opposition to use of the guillotine on the Scottish Law Reform bill] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (politics) [latest polling, Gorbachev's position] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Mandela) [Mandela causes uproar for telling British Govt to hold peace talks with IRA] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Mandela) [Mandela's comments on IRA] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Mandela) [Community Charge financial package, apartheid] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (NATO) [Gorbachev's position, situation in Eastern Europe] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Economic Summit, Gorbachev) [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Nick Ridley) ["The press is near unanimous in saying that Mr Ridley should go"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Nicholas Ridley) [press near unanimous that Ridley should go] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Ridley - memo) [leaked memo of Chequers seminar on Germany with unattractive features of German character highlighted] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Rifkind, Lamont, Lord Mackay, Lord Fraser, Kenneth Baker, Tony Newton, John Patten) ["Child Maintenance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock's speech) [Gorbachev agrees to a united Germany in NATO - in return for aid] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock's visit, Economy) [Chancellor in stark message to Tory backbenchers] [released Feb 2020]
Text 90 Jul 18 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Pankhurst Lecture to the 300 Group
PDF 90 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Your speech, Kinnock) [Bush to open talks with Vietnam] [released Feb 2020]
Text 90 Jul 19 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech to 1922 Committee
PDF 90 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge/public spending, 1922) [preparations for next election] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Rates) [government reacts strongly to Labour's return to the rates plan] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Reshuffle) [Treasury remains dry, FCO more pro-Europe] [released Feb 2020]

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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