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Text 45 Jun 25 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech in Sleaford
Text 60 Feb 6 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN (after maiden speech) [MT's first television interview]
Text 75 Feb 11 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after winning Conservative leadership (Conservative Central Office)
Text 76 Jan 19 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Kensington Town Hall ("Britain Awake") (The Iron Lady)
Text 79 May 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis's prayer)
Text 82 Apr 25 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks on the recapture of South Georgia (2045Z) ("Rejoice")
Text 88 Sep 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech")
Text 90 Nov 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks outside the Paris Embassy ("I confirm it is my intention to let my name go forward for the second ballot")
Text 90 Nov 22 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Confidence in Her Majesty's Government]
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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 are 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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