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PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Fowler minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on social security] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Walker minute to Nigel Lawson ("Green Paper on Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on taxation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Brittan PS minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [presentation of GDP to expenditure ratio] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Waldegrave, Letwin, Bob Dunn) ["ILEA": Inner London Education Authority; London Conservative MPs' reform proposals; direct elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Community Cash Position 1984: 1983 Refunds") [advance payment of member states' own resources & likely repercussions: "Notwithstanding [these]... the right course is for us to go playing strictly by the Community rules... We need not bind ourselves at this stage actually to pay the money over"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Channel Tunnel Link") [background; key questions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Abu Ghazala) [meeting with Egyptian Defence Minister: Lebanon; Iran/Iraq; UK/Egypt arms production for Middle Eastern market; Soviet presence in Middle East/Africa] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Liaison Committee (documents for meeting) [agenda, priority action points, coming weeks] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (proposal on 1984-85 PSBR) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong (“Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT to meet FitzGerald at Brussels summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit 1984”) [arrangements for reception at St James’ Palace] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong letter to Julian Bullard (“London Economic Summit 1984: Political Discussion”) [list of subjects to be discussed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Local Government Conference”) [opposes press release on rate capping] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Abolition of GLC/MCCs: By-Elections”) [“past the point of no return”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 ("Overdue Scrutiny Decisions") [draft requests to Ministers for progress reports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (British Nationality Fees) [White Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics) [MT concurs with Robin Nicholson's case for the Review & notes Geoffrey Howe's concerns] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute MT ("Trade Policy") [comments on Tebbit paper of 28 February; additional proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Steering Committee on Economic Strategy, 11am, 8 March") [trade policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Soviet Ambassador to the UK Popov letter to Howe (message from the Prime Minister on the death of Andropov) [thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Hailsham, Biffen, Heseltine, Fowler, Robert Armstrong) ["TSRB Pensions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("European Council: Paper for President Mitterrand") [MT doubtful as to offering VAT share-expenditure gap as a basis for budget settlement at this point] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Preparation for European Council, 19/20 March") [brief for ministerial meeting 8 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 833 to FCO (1505Z) ("Preparation for European Council") [COREPER discussion; Council may continue until evening of 20 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to Norman Fowler ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [attention to Welsh circumstances] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Brittan, Jenkin, Wakeham, Lord Bellwin, Waldegrave, Gummer) ["Education in London"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner London Education Authority") [abolition of GLC/Paving Bill; direct elections to ILEA] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Coles ("CAP: Monetary Compensation Amounts") ["The UK position on this item is unconvincing and negative": strategy proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on EC issues") [EC Commission request for advance payment; issues for the European Council; letter to President Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet Office: Community Affairs") [negotiating situation for European Council; 1983 EC budget refunds; Energy Council: package of measures; advance transfer of members states' own resources to EC Commission; agriculture: 1984 price proposals; Environment Council & Consumer Affairs Council: outcomes; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Hailsham letter to MT (personal attacks on her) [condemns “dirty tricks brigade in trying to get at you though your family”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal") ["The temperature is rising in the coalfields...there is a strong possibility that the Scottish and Yorkshire miners could be on strike by the weekend"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Joseph and Jenkin memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 10 (Education in London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [1984-5 PSBR; agreement to drop proposal to impose VAT on newspapers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“the Taoiseach is heavily preoccupied with bringing the Forum to a successful conclusion (ie a consensus report)”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: MT letter to Governor of St Helena (thanks for gift) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: timetable”) [Howe visit to Beijing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joseph, Whitelaw, Biffen, Brittan, Jenkin, Jopling, Lord Bellwin, Waldegrave, Gummer) [“Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: By-Elections”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Tom King PS ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [request for progress report on 1980 recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Brittan PS ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [MT congratulates Brittan & asks to be kept informed] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Employment") [work in hand; next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury minute (internal) to Palmer ("Nationalised Industries: Quarterly Monitoring Report (December 1983)") [Rees concern that Report circulated too late for its figures to be relevant] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Gowrie ("Hereditary Peerages Bill") [Queen's Consent; Bill to be opposed by Government at Second Reading] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Rees minute to MT ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["the review would have little point if radical options for our involvement in CERN were off the agenda"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 816 to FCO (1930Z) ("US Elections: Gary Hart") [assessment of his campaign to date] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 139 to FCO (2120Z) ("Turkish/Greek Incident") [opening of fire during Turkish anti-aircraft exercise viewed as provocation, Greek diplomatic action] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Biffen ("Education (Grants and Awards Bill)") [Bill to come back to Commons in order to delete clause inserted by Opposition blocking use of education support grants, paid to local authorities, to support expenditure in grammar schools] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Thomas minute to MT ("A European Initiative on East/West Issues") [proposal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (1645-1815Z) (MT, Howe, Lawson, Jopling, Wakeham, Biffen) [European Council, Brussels, 19/20 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Prior PS ("Shorts: corporate plan and privatisation") ["...[MT] agrees that it is useful to confirm privatisation as the objective for the company but shares the Chief Secretary's doubts... [about making] adjustments to the balance sheet in advance of detailed discussions..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Younger letter to Brittan ("Boundary Commission for Scotland: Report on Review of European Assembly Constituencies") [recommendations and next steps] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation) ["Lord King's view that CAA could produce a report which would damage BA and make privatisation more difficult"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (direct elections to the Inner London Education Authority) [Whitelaw, Brittan, Keith Joseph, Jenkin, Rees, Havers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Walker ("Refund Regulations: Energy Items") ["I have instructed our representative on the [Energy] Working Group to raise coal social measures... Only if... this approach cannot succeed, and... to persist in it would jeopardise our refunds, will we lift our reserve on coking coal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison minute to MT (draft speech defending No.10) [MT & Ingham advise against] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 9th (Parliamentary Affairs, Coal Industry: Pit Closures, Northern Ireland, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Education in London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 9th (Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter for Defence Minister Abu Ghazala of Egypt (thanking for the brooch) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Nissan") [mitigating effects of capital allowance changes on Nissan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT letter to No.10 (draft Budget Speech with MT annotations) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (comments on draft Budget Speech) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Harvey Thomas letter to Tessa Gaisman (“Central Council At The Metropole Hotel Birmingham”) [autocue arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Financial Markets Report”) [Feb 1984] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UK Ambassador Rome letter to No.10 (phone call from President Pertini after visit to London) [“great pleasure”, “atmosphere of allegria and good company” at state banquet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Clift, FCO minute to Howe PS (“Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Rapier") [Richard Parsons, Juan Carlos I: record of conversation: Rapier contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: David Barclay minute to MT ("Right to Buy: the Five Year Rule") [Rees paper on repayment of purchase discount when house is sold again] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Proposed Review of BBC External Services") [MT believes review will raise alarms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("BT Flotation") ["complexities and issues which must be settled, many in very short order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: FCO telegram to UKE Santiago ("Walter Rauff") [instructions to UK ambassador to support W. German request for Nazi war criminal's repatriation to stand trial] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Merit Pay") [comments on Lord Gowrie's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Lord Thomas minute to MT ("Conversations with the Russians") [note by Soviet Group of the Centre for Policy Studies: advocates meeting with new Soviet leadership] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("TSRB Pensions") [draft PQ reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (visit of Japanese Crown Prince and Princess to the UK) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to John Coles ("East/West Relations: Further Steps") [follow-up to MT visits to Budapest & Moscow: Soviet/British contacts; arms control] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mrs Ida Nudel") [human rights abuses: request for MT to take up case with Soviet ambassador] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Geoffrey Howe note to MT (draft manifesto) [MT note: “Marvellous for Chatham House but not for a manifesto”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (Imperial visit to UK) [“warmth of hospitality”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to President Mitterrand of France (budget imbalance) [encloses paper on “Future Financing of the Community”, of use for next Council meeting] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 letter to Brittan PS ("Scrutinies and value for money") [MT keen to maintain momentum of reform, and presses for report on efficiency in the prison service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chairman of the Coalite Group letter to MT (the Falkland Islands: immigration and commercial fishing) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: Howe minute to MT ("Angola: UNITA's British hostages") [latest position; MT concerned about handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (imbalance in the European Community Budget) ["I promised to let you have a paper... designed to describe a lasting and systematic solution"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Community Cash position") ["At her meeting yesterday... [MT] asked about the balance on the Commission's account... Commission officials have... [assured us] that they will be able to find the necessary cash to pay out refunds before the end of March"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek speech to the Mont Pelerin Society ("Professor Friedrich Hayek's Closing Speech") [reflections on the history of the society and the resurgence of classical liberalism]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turbull minute to MT ("Miners' Industrial Action") [Department of Energy situation report on strike, and other matters] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Lawson minute for Howe (“International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer documents on Budget leak ("Suspected Leak") [line to take] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Residual Shareholders") [Chancellor modifies Budget proposals on sale of residual shareholdings] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Robert Armstrong) [restructuring the Property Services Agency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Nigerian Debts: British Caledonian Airways”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Royal Netherlands Embassy in London letter to MT (thanking) [breakfast at No.10 on 2 March] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Local Government Conference”) [agenda, programme, rate capping background] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Sherbourne minute for MT (speech notes for Local Government Conference) [rate capping] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Julian Amery letter to MT (South African relations with her neighbours) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: composition of British delegation”) [China hostile to inclusion of Hong Kong Attorney General] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on Nationality, Citizenship, Right of Abode, Freedom of Travel, Emigration and Immigration”) [declassified 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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