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PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland message to MT (committee on EC development) [arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Hailsham letter to MT (dog died) [“It was indeed good of you amid all your other preoccupations to write to me about poor little Mini”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 26th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Docks Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [meeting with Nally: “aim will be to get the Irish to recognise that ‘joint authority’ as envisaged in the Nally proposals is not available”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: MT letter to Senator Lugar (United States Senate Delegation visit to UK) [courtesy note] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“Interest Rates”) [Bank of England stance undermining policy; urges spending cuts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Foreign Secretary to Secretary of State for Defence (“Merchant Shipping in the Gulf and the Armilla Patrol”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 minute to MT (“Supply of Defence Equipment to Syria”) [“You were sceptical … You were quiet right” Heseltine & Howe minutes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS record of conversation (Jenkin, Lord Hailsham, Brittan) [Abolition of GLC/MCC: future arrangements for the probation service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [arrangements for the bilateral talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to Defence Secretariat ("Further Capital Works at Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Tebbit, Biffen, Wakeham) ["Civil Aviation Review"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Sir Austin Pearce) [failure to meet with Tebbit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Tebbit, Biffen, Wakeham) ["Sealink": consideration given to bids & decision made] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Edwards letter to Ridley ("Local Choice in Public Transport") [Welsh Office publication; "I am proposing to publish this simultaneously with your White Paper on 12 July"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Film Industry White Paper") [draft for clearance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Film Industry White Paper") ["proposed allocation of £2 million a year for five years to the film industry... In order to keep to the timetable for publication... unless he hears to the contrary by the close tomorrow... [Tebbit will] assume that the Chancellor does not wish to object to the proposals in the attached draft"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Presidency of the European Commission") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, FitzGerald) ["Presidency of the European Commission": candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Budget Council 18/19 July") ["will have to consider some difficult issues on the 1984 and 1985 Budgets and on the financing of our 1000 mecu 1984 refund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (European Community: ad hoc Committees on Institutional Questions and on a People's Europe) [terms of reference; membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Parliamentary debate on outcome of European Council; draft Spinelli Treaty on European Union; EC budget discipline; UK 1983 refund; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs") [coal; docks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Rees PS letter to No.10 ("Kinsale Gas") [Rees claims project not commercially viable] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Exchange Rate Fluctuation and Overseas Inflation") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("El Salvador: President Duarte") ["A political gesture of support for his efforts would be appropriate"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKHC Wellington telegram 214 to FCO (0328Z) ("New Zealand Election, 1984") [Labour well ahead in the polls] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Exodus letter to MT (Soviet Union) [list of "refuseniks"] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (film industry White Paper) ["Agreement has now been reached on the outstanding issues"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [circular to local authorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Gaston Thorn letter to MT (EC 1984 Supplementary Budget) ["unless the Commission's proposals... are adopted it will have... to suspend agricultural payments to the Member States. This would have serious implications for the budget year 1985"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: United Kingdom refund for 1983 of 750 million ECU (about £440 million net)") ["money should be received... shortly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community: Supplementary Budget for 1984 and Preliminary Draft Budget for 1985") ["necessary to decide what line the... [UK] should take in the Council of Ministers (Budget) on 18-19 July"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Dock Strike") [lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Heseltine minute to Prior ("European Commission on Human Rights: Farrell v UK") [settlement negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Exchange Rate Fluctuation and Overseas Inflation") [advice on response to Foreign Secretary's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Future Demand for Higher Education") [publication of revised projections] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Derwent minute to Hatfield (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - supports report conclusions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Tessa Gaisman note for Bernard Ingham (Michael Alison meeting with Afghan resistance public relations officer) [Soviet troops “have failed to crush continuing countrywide resistance”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alan Clark letter to MT (miners’ strike) [“These ‘crises’ when everything seems to be falling apart at once are never, in the historical perspective, as substantial as they seem at the time”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: Canadian PM John Turner letter to MT (visit to Chequers) [“I know that together we shall revitalize the already good relations between our countries.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Financial Services Debate”) [policy agreed at meeting with Lawson & Governor] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Conservative Research Department briefing (debate on Gower Report) [backgound] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 26th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Dock Strike, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Industrial Disputes") [miners' strike: arrangements for meetings to discuss handling of coal and dock disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Exchange of letters between Howe and George Shultz ("Arms Control in Outer Space") [prospects for US/Soviet arms control talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker letter to MT (Cyprus Neutral Group Initiative) [“suggest that the two Communities should invite us to hear their respective cases”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: David Alton letter to Chester District Auditor (Liverpool City Council budget and rates) [“those responsible for the introduction of an unlawful budget must be held to account for their actions”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Visit of Governor Wallace of Alabama: 27-28 July”) [“to promote inward investment” - request to meet with MT declined] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: No.10 to FCO (“The Prime Minister’s Message to Sultan Qaboos of Oman”) [the Gulf War] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to Hong Kong Government (“Future of Hong Kong: message from the Prime Minister to Premier Zhao Ziyang”) [“I have become concerned… serious [difficulties] have been identified”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Tebbit, Tom King, Ridley, Jopling) [“Abolition: Trading Standards and related functions in metropolitan counties”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Tougher Regimes in Detention Centres”) [follow-up to 1979 Manifesto commitment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 note to MT (report on tougher regimes in detention centres) [comments on the findings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan letter to Whitelaw ("Tougher regimes in detention centres") ["...announcing an immediate programme to establish a consistent detention centre regime as a distinctive feature in the penal system and one which will command the confidence of the courts." ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("De Lorean") [publication of Public Accounts Committee report on failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [arrangements for the bilateral talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("FRG Embassy's EC Briefing on Chancellor Kohl's Visit to Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram to FCO ("Supplies for the Falklands") [Argentina displeased by Chile's renewed trade links with the Falklands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Royal Dockyards") [proposals on commercialisation: timescale for discussion; industrial action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling ("EC Agricultural Structures Proposals and Conservation") ["I... see difficulties in your proposal... [in regard to] holding down the cost of the structures package"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Jopling, Ian Stewart, Michael Butler, David Williamson) ["European Community Budget"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS Rayner Scrutiny of Residential Accommodation") [publication of report; draft press notice; potential for substantial savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Leon Brittan (TV licensing for self-catering establishments) [operation of a refund system] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [future of the project] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister on 20 July") [wide-ranging review of "points of special interest or concern" in foreign policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 minute to Foreign Secretary PS ("Exchange Rate Fluctuation and Overseas Inflation") [response to Rees and Foreign Secretary's minutes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King letter to Peter Rees ("Youth Training Scheme Allowance") ["your wish to see my proposals for employment and training measures generally before you take a view on the YTS allowance"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("MISC 104 - the Urban Programme and Policy") [identification of weaknesses in Patrick Jenkin's paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (the Urban Programme and Urban Policy) [management proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Objectives of Urban Policy and the Urban Programme") [background; Review recommendations; recap on outcomes from previous meeting/key issues; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Performance-Related Pay") [draft Gowrie/Lawson paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Qualified Majority Voting in the Enlarged Community") ["the number of votes which will constitute a qualified majority in the enlarged Community... We shall not be able to hold up enlargement on this issue... if we do not succeed in persuading either the French or the Germans to support [our case for 57 out of 76 votes]"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Police Pay") [advice on Government response to pay review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Tebbit minute to Armstrong (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - content with action proposed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Treasury briefing (“Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: July [1984]”) [released 2012]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister 20 July" - UK foreign policy overview) [MT: "May I have a spare copy for the flat to ponder on from time to time"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)27th Meeting") [miners' strike: coal and dock disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("Coal and Dock Strikes") [miners' strike: "the extreme Left is mounting an extra Parliamentary challenge to the Government on a number of fronts"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (“H Committee”) [insolvency law reform, Warnock report, Creag Meagaidh] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Cartledge briefing for MT ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers: 16 July at 5 p.m.") [ASATs and SDI] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Cradock minute to Powell ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers") [ASATs and SDI: response to MT's query] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Reagan letter to MT (London economic summit) [thanks for gifts, “perfect remembrances of our stay in London and of your close friendship”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs) and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers") [ASATs and SDI: background for 16 July meeting with Howe and Heseltine] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle computer centre strike”) [Union prepared to accept Government deal in guise of ACAS ‘conciliation’ proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [“your personal intervention with President Reagan was crucial in achieving amendments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Crispin Tickell letter to Robert Armstrong (“Post-Summit briefing: Australia, Indonesia and India”) [generally positive reaction to Summit and the declarations made, warm welcome and respect for HMG] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“ECGD Policy towards Rescheduling Countries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO telegram to British Interests SectionTehran (“British Renown”) [Iraqi air attacks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to Luce (“Future of Hong Kong: Joint Group: Secretary of State’s visit”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Undertakings by HMG to Hong Kong people”) [proposed criteria for resettlement in UK post-1997] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: Nationality”) [working apper annex reflecting recent negotiations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 14 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: FCO telegram 180 to UKHC Wellington (1139Z) (general election) [alternative messages to Muldoon, Lange] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Jul 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (constitutional reform in Sri Lanka) [record of her conversation with President Jayewardene] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 2151 to FCO (1535Z) (“1984 Democratic platform: growth, prosperity and jobs”) [“hardly sets out a coherent, let alone costed, economic programme”] [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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