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PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") ["a substantial shortfall has emerged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure) [different categories of spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [gas and electricity industries and spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Howe-Lawson-Rees) [FCO spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure Survey") [latest proposed figures are an improvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984") ["the remaining task is formidable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions") [MT "alarmed by some of the ideas which are being aired in this committee"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin letter to Lord Hailsham ("24th Report of the Law Reform Committee Latent Damage") [recommendations; follow-up] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3221 to FCO (2159Z) ("Laker") [Wright, Dam: record of conversation: US/UK consultations on future arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Chairman of the European Democratic Group (VAT and foodstuffs) [offers assurances that UK government will not impose VAT on UK foodstuffs, and that EC will not enforce imposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT ("Planning System") [response to Sir John Sainsbury's proposals for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("The Health Service in England: Annual Report 1984") [press notice on publication of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Overseas Development Administration letter to Powell ("VSO and Oxfam") [Government funding for Voluntary Service Overseas and Oxfam] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure") [review of evidence submission procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 (Government precedence for opening Debates on Government days) [MT concern about Labour opening recent debate on unemployment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Release of Documents to Select Committees") [review of rules & conventions; Tebbit agrees reluctantly to Biffen proposals, following recent disagreement between Govt and Committee over release of British Shipbuilders documents] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Council Minutes (1930Z) ("Contadora Process") (NSC 0110) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham note to MT (good interview with Birmingham Post ) [“‘Mrs Thatcher: the unshakeable PM’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Channon memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 31 (Tornados for Turkey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: David Williamson minute for Charles Powell (“Anglo-German Summit”) [counter German sense of British negativity about EC] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Alison-Smith-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: latest developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 30 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lamont letter to Rees ("Miners' Strike: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: BBC news transcript ("Miner/Iain Bain") [miners' strike: report on attempt of Iain Bain to return to work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Payment of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Gordon Reece note to MT (“Director of Publicity’) [“need a man or woman with imagination, class and an outstanding political flair”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Women: MT letter to Florence Nagle (thanks for gift) [“deeply impressed by all that you have achieved in working for the rights of women”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 note to Department of the Environment (“Meeting with the Bishop and Archbishop of Liverpool”) [request for briefings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Correspondence and Memoranda for Cabinet and Cabinet Committees”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Antony Acland (Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the media) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [detention orders in British Consulate: next steps] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers) [economic reform in Hungary, UK-Hungarian relations, East-West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (Local government finance and functions) [request for ‘outside’ expertise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (“RSG settlement 1985/86”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Prison Service industries and farms") [reforms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Adam Butler minute to MT ("Redundancies at the Royal Ordnance factories") ["Already the Trade Unions have announced plans for 'walk out'... No doubt, this has much to do with their antipathy towards our privatisation proposals..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with Chancellor”) [Walker; public expenditure; post-mortem on unemployment debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 (MT's draft reply to George Foulkes: the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [France to maintain its abstention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Taoiseach letter to MT (Falklands vote at the UN) [gives MT notice that Ireland will abstain] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Dr David Owen MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [how to resolve outstanding issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Rees) [social services, agriculture, defence] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Defence") [figures for 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: FCO Programmes") [overseas aid, FCO Diplomatic Wing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Tebbit PS ("PES 1984") [ECGD programme 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Social Security Programme") [Fowler committed on total size of savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Tornados for Turkey") ["whether the revised BAe proposals are acceptable and what the division of credit exposure should be between public and private sector sources"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Government Response to the Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution") ["a rare opportunity to present the more positive stance... which was agreed... at the meeting you chaired on 17 May... [including] a stronger statement on nuclear power"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Parliament's Budget Committee. U.K Compensation for 1984") ["an amendment putting U.K compensation on the expenditure side of the 1985 Budget"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [1983 refund; UK membership of EC; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS ("Aviation and US Antitrust: The 'Laker' Issue") [report on talks with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 845 to FCO (1530Z) ("Death of Mrs Gandhi") [announcement on new PM, identity of assailants, religious violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 843 to FCO (1010Z) ("Mrs Gandhi") [confirmation Gandhi "died as a result of the injuries received in the assassination attempt"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKE Islamabad telegram 676 to FCO (0815Z) ("Assassination Attempt on Mrs Gandhi") [President Zia statement: "heard with deep shock and horror the news"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell note to MT (Mrs Gandhi's death) [making a statement would be an important mark of respect] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mrs Gandhi's Death: Reaction of UK Sikhs") [MT statement, message to Ranjiv Gandhi] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT message to Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia (best wishes on installation of new Yang di-Pertuan Agong as Malaysian Head of State) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 minute to MT ("Fixed Link Across the Channel") [advice for Ridley on line to take for his meeting with French Transport Minister] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local Government: Sherbourne minute to MT (“Mr Freddie Weyer”, GLC Conservative councillors) [meeting to urge them not to resign in May] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 31 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Stan Orme MP letter to Walker (secret document on pit closures in the North East) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Stan Orme MP (secret document on pit closures in the North East) [miners' strike: "I must say Arthur Scargill is like a bus driver to the Labour Party. He takes you for a ride almost every day"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Willetts minute to Turnbull ("Payments of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike; MT and Fowler comment on Willetts' proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Venue") [threat assessment and proposed venue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland") [brief for meeting with Howe and Hurd] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong-Andrew-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: North Ireland"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for Michael Alison (Mikhael Gorbachev’s visit) [“We are hoping that the Prime Minister can unveil it in her speech in the Debate on the Address”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Northern Ireland Secretary PS (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“a risk that the result of the talks might simply be to step up violence rather than reduce it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland”) [Armstrong-Nally talks; Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [briefing ahead of ministerial meeting on Armstrong-Nally talks, Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Foreign Secretary PS (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [position paper for Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Summit: Venue”) [in aftermath of Brighton bomb, suggests event be held at Chequers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull note to MT (Jenkin’s opening shot) [approval for Liverpool City Council sports hall projects under the urban programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [Ambassador meeting Botha "was treated to some stern words about the Durban Consulate"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Inland Revenue minute for Treasury & MP (“Distribution of Personal Wealth”) [general trend towards greater equality interrupted in 1981-82] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to David Owen (“Sterling and the EMS, Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1260 to FCO (0230Z) ("Falklands: Caputo's Speech") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("MISC 106: Agriculture R and D Expenditure") [options for reducing spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wybrew minute to MT ("Energy and Expenditure Savings") [aim for £2.2bn of savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT ("The Public Expenditure Scorecard") [Walker not waiving on corporation tax] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Heseltine) [provision for Defence for 197-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Walker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("LFR 1984") [gas and electricity industry bids] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Kinnock (European Commission: allocation of portfolios) [Development Commissioner; MT: "it is for the new British Commissioners themselves to make clear to M. Delors the responsibilities they would wish to exercise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Farewell Call by Viscount Davignon") [end of term as European Commissioner; Howe advice to MT to receive call: "we still need his help on Research and Development and shipbuilding aids"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, McMahon and officials) ["Intervention, the reserves and official borrowing"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 849 to FCO (0550Z) ("Aftermath of Mrs Gandhi's Death") [composition of new Cabinet, allegations of wider conspiracy, Indian general election] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 854 to FCO (1011Z) ("Law and Order Situation") [violence in northern India, attacks on religious sites] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3247 to FCO (1800Z) ("Meeting with Shultz") [India/Pakistan, US/Soviet relationship, Laker, Middle East, Central America] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral") [briefs on UK/India relations, Indian internal and external affairs, bilateral meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral: Foreign Attendance") [bilateral meetings arranged, to be arranged] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral: Bilateral Meetings") [priorities, as time will be limited] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Peter Warry minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Helicopters for India") [Westland order had Gandhi's backing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Sir Terence Beckett, Director-General of the CBI (CBI Conference: MT unable to attend due to Indira Gandhi's funeral) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Job Weighting for Permanent Secretaries) ["I should very much prefer not to have to make recommendations to Ministers without reference to the TSRB"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Robert Rhea of McDonald's Hamburgers Ltd (the planning system: problems and need for reform) [declassified Dec 2014]

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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