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PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [legal objections to proceeding with policy amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Nicholas Scott letter to Brittan (“UK/US extradition”) [“It could be argued that in effect we are asking the United States to return murderers”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Charles Price telegram to Bob Dole (visit to London by Republican leadership) [request to reschedule] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Hailsham (VAT Tribunals: transfer of responsibilities) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“Falklands Trooping Contract”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Prosecution of Offences Bill: Meeting with the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary, 3 April 1985”) [“This battle in Parliament might win the power to obtain sentencing guidelines or might be lost. It would be better to achieve the same by a safer route”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 briefing for MT ("Rates - Line to take") [briefing for PMQs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler ("Local Authority Finance") ["The Community Charge is, I believe, a winner. But I am nervous lest it is accidentally or deliberately misinterpreted, for example: 'Tories hit the poor again'"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Havers letter to Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies - a Trust for London") [better to use an existing organisation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Younger PS to No.10 ("Rates and revaluation in Scotland") [Scottish conference resolution; MT - "We can't take IMMEDIATE action"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (Football hooliganism: comments from The Magistrates' Association) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Football Spectator Violence") [draft letter to the Chairman of the Football Association on hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Monckton minute to MT ("Home Improvement - A New Approach") [comment on revised draft Green Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin) [large scale household survey: Rate Support Grant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (duties & responsibilities of civil servants in relation to Ministers) [request for advice on handling of reply to letter from Austin Mitchell MP, querying 'confusing' Cabinet Office guidance; No.10 of the view that query was politically motivated and advise reply by Lord Gowrie] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("VE Day: Representation in Moscow") [proposals; MT/Gorbachev exchange of messages] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft (EFA)") [consideration of UK's defence needs, and relative merits of alternative options] [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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