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PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (""No Justification for Hardship and Disruption": NCB Chairman on the Facts about the Coal Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Industry and Coal Stocks") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior letter to Elles (Haagerup report) [“appreciation of all your efforts to secure a reasonably favourable outcome”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Northern Ireland prisons”) [“some prison officers were so intimidated by fear of attack outside the prison that they were turning a blind eye to some of the rules”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq: Supply of Chemicals”) [export control] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKDEL NATO to FCO (“Iran-Iraq: Contingency Planning”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: G. Howe to MT (“Iran: Supply of Defence Equipment”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Local Government spending: Policy Unit proposals”) [“search for economy and effectiveness”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT message to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (London economic summit) [delegations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for MT ("Belgrano: Mr Dalyell's Letter") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Belgrano") [a letter by Mr Dalyell to MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("The Belgrano") [a letter by Mr Dalyell to MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO (Potential sale of the Falkland Islands Company to Mr Jack Hayward) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 375 to FCO (1835Z) ("Relations with Argentina") [Caputo's call on the UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("Falkland Islands: Further Capital Costs") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jenkin minute for Heseltine ("Falkland Islands - Further Capital Costs") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates") [Heseltine's amendments to his White Paper; handling of its publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Next President of the European Commission": French/West German candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Paisley MP letter to MT ("EC 1984-85 Farm Price Agreement and Related Measures") ["Northern Ireland has been disadvantaged vis-a-vis the Irish Republic"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Secretary's Statement on the Foreign Affairs Council") [EC budget; 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UK Ambassador to France letter to FCO ("EC Budget negotiations") ["an impression... of how matters look from Paris"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe record of conversation (Howe, Tugendhat) ["European Community: Budget imbalances": Howe clarification of comments at Luxembourg Foreign Affairs Council: "We were not insisting that the Commission should play the role of arbitrator, but leaving them the option"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Reform of the Community's Finances") [David Williamson, Etienne Davignon: negotiations with the French; MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [reform of EC financial system; EC budget shortfall for 1984; Council of Ministers: trade issues; meeting of Social Affairs Ministers; joint European Torus (JET) project] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Terence Beckett, Director-General of the CBI) [international economic outlook, CBI Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal") [600th anniversary of the Treaty of Windsor] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Non-Industrial Civil Service Pay Negotiations 1984") [Government strategy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe minute to MT ("Proposed Visit to the Soviet Union by the Secretary of State for Energy") [suggestions regarding timing of visit; MT notes that dealing with coal strike must be top priority] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie PS minute to No.10 (Guided Weapons for the Royal Navy) [copy of statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Value for Money in Defence Procurement") [recent Heseltine initiatives; comments on Essential Defence Technologies report recommendations; advice on next steps] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Message to the New Soviet President") [draft message of congratulations from the Queen, tempered at MT's request; Chernenko's inauguration speech] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Spain: Rapier") ["You asked for background on the Spanish Government's recent decision to buy the Franco-German Roland missile system in preference to Rapier"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Anonymous note to MT (attack on her leadership, supposedly from a Conservative MP) [“how dare you, a grocer’s daughter, bring our great Party into the dust?”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT (programme to mark fifth anniversary) [suggests briefing for Sunday papers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Redwood minute for Cockfield speech (wider dispersion of wealth and freedom) [“Individuals in this country are already quite wealthy but often do not know it”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: President of Israel (Chaim Herzog) letter to MT (enjoyed frank conversation) [Israel election; invites MT visit] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (visit to Docklands) [media; London Docklands Development Corporation; BT, DLR; includes MT thank you letters] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 9th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy: Taxation Aspects”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker letter to No.10 (proposed sale of land to Greek Government) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [current situation and possible developments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Howe PS (“Economic Summit: Australian Participation”) [action unlikely to “mollify” Hawke, but MT wonders whether Hawke should be invited to visit later in the year] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina: Bank Lending”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Robin Butler to Peter Middleton (Alan Walters text) [assessment for publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Peter Veress, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Trade) [Hungary-EC, economy, USSR] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Muscat to FCO (“Gulf Contingency Planning: Omani Reactions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs - Supplementary Brief”) [allocation of the milk quota] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: transition period”) [MT: “Very worrying - shows their true colours”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Belgrano: Peruvian Peace Proposals") [Tam Dalyell's questions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Tam Dalyell (sinking of the Belgrano) [not true that "the Belgrano was attacked in order to destroy the prospects for peace negotiations"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") ["the project to launch DBS has suffered repeated delays... [further] delay of even 2-3 weeks may lose the chance of a 1987 launch... This is a high-cost, and a high-risk venture"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Rees minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") ["The broadcasters' apparent reluctance to commit themselves suggests to me that we too should tread warily"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") [Tebbit opposed to delay in launch of project if time for consideration is allowed for Lord Cockfield's suggested modifications; MT: "I agree with Lord C. very strongly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("The DBS Project") [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: proposed modifications to avoid risk of Government financial commitment; "We came into office convinced of the merits of the free market economy"; MT concurs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") ["fully agree with [Tebbit]... delay in reaching decisions until 1 May would seriously undermine the chances of success of the joint project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to Cabinet Office ("Forecast of UK net contribution to Community Budget: excess customs duties and levies") [concerns regarding different sets of forecasts - Treasury and Cabinet Office - provided to No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Ortoli) ["EC Budget: Discussion with Vice President Ortoli": forecast for 1984; shortfall; savings; budgetary imbalance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Ridley ("10 May Transport Council: Unfair Commercial Practices in Shipping Services") [response to French proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General's Chambers letter to No.10 ("Cabinet 29 March 1984: Item 3: Community Budget and United Kingdom Refunds") [revision to minutes: clarification of advice given during meeting regarding legal obligation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: President Mitterrand letter to MT (visit to Chequers, 5 March 1984) [note of thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting on Scientific Research") [date; venue] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Department of Health briefing for MT ("Dinner for United Nations Organisations on 16 April") [MT draft statement on population control, to be delivered at Dinner for UN Administrative Committee on Coordination] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine) [promoting competitiveness in Defence procurement; NATO contracts for France] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jim Prior ("Tenure in the Universities") [legislation to revise of terms of academics' employment: line to take on new or amended charters or statutes in light of planned merger of the New University of Ulster and Ulster Polytechnic; Whitelaw concerns about legislative schedule] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Corporal Punishment") ["within the limits set by the European Court of Human Rights, we should give schools the right to choose... [however] we can expect the Bill to receive a stormy reception, and... we could see corporal punishment disappear from all but a minority of maintained schools"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal: 17-18 April") [UK's non-participation in the Lisbon International Trade Fair] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: National Union Executive Committee minutes (Central Council, European & Local government elections) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 15th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Industrial Affairs, Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC101(84)10th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German Summit: 2 May 1984”) [briefing arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw (“Corporal Punishment”) [reactions to consultative document] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, etc) [“underlying the crisis over Liverpool’s finances there was an atmosphere of growing violence which was exacerbated by the violence of language in local politics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Milk: Quota-Superlevy Scheme”) [agriculture ministers agree “equality of misery”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Incentives for Membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty") [MT doubts the wisdom of 'technical assistance fund' proposal for developing countries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("MBFR") [Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction: revised text of Western negotiating objectives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The CAP and the Community's Own Resources") ["This point ought to be given more prominence in the media... that... agreeing in principle to increase the Community's own resources... [does not entail that the Government] has thrown away the one negotiating opportunity to halt run-away CAP expenditure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by MEPs") ["to see how our 1982 budget refunds are being spent"; MT unhappy about timing of visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community") ["Following our talk, I have been reflecting overnight about how best to take the negotiations forward"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Guinea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Republic of Guinea") [background to military coup; draft MT message to new government] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Jobs") ["I have recently been visiting some UK companies to hear their views on the working of the labour market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Appointment of Lord Lyell") [membership of Lloyd's] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (warshipbuilding: order for Type 22 frigates) [Heseltine/Tebbit dispute over implications for Merseyside of rejecting Cammell Laird bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [detail of disagreement with Treasury over his draft paper proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 141 to FCO (1330Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal") [analysis of internal political & economic situation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 minute to MT ("Portugal") [MT visit; MT speech to British-Portugese Chamber of Commerce] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 letter to Bristol City Council (the economic and cultural union between Bristol and Oporto) [thanks for information provided for forthcoming MT visit to Oporto] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Ingham minute to MT ("Portugal - Interviews") [schedule; lines to take; key issues/questions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) United Nations: Sue Goodchild minute to MT ("United Nations Dinner Monday, 16 April") [guests] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary Policy: Treasury briefing "Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: April [1984]"
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 10th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (""The Pits Are Open for Work" Statement by Coal Board Chairman") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, nurses’ pay, Director General of NEDC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: US Embassy London letter to No.10 (photograph of the Prime Minister and the President) [request that MT sign and inscribe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“London Economic Summit: Media Handbook”) [MT’s message on the merit of Summits held since 1975] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Visit by the South African Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: call on Zhou Nan on 13 April”) [Howe in China; MT: “seems as if the Unofficials were right in their judgement”] [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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