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PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC budget: Presidency medal (keepsake given to leaders after Fontainebleau European Council) [released 2015]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Briefing for Prime Minister's Questions: 26 June 1984 - Coal Industry Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)22nd Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (BSC, BR and NCB meeting to coordinate positions over possible injunctions) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Tom King (“Training for Jobs: public expenditure implications”) [argues against further reduction in local authority expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [Jenkin “thinks the Liverpool City Council are genuinely anxious to strike a legal rate at their meeting”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Flesher minute to Butler (“Paving Bill”) [principal objection of the Lords has been met] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to MT (Jenkin-Rees meeting on Liverpool) [“For 1985-86 Mr. Jenkin wishes to give Liverpool an assurance that he will be able to give additional help”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin PS to No10 (Jenkin letter to Liverpool City Council) [“what he had in mind was the provision of a further £10 million”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 Turnbull minute to Policy Unit (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite) [Brittan strategy to let the scheme “collapse under its own weight”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Fontainebleau European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: MT speaking notes (for Council sessions) [includes MT jottings on conversations; ready reckoner for 60-70 per cent settlement range] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC budget: MT memoir (Fontaineableau European Council) [settlement of the British budget question] [released 2015]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) EC budget: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Fontainebleau European Council) [settlement of British budget question] [declassified 2008]
Text 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Fontainebleau European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: Ingham minute to MT (“Your press conference”) [“right to strike a reasonable deal”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKDEL Fontainebleau (constitutional development and general strategy for the talks) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Hong Kong: OD(K) 28 June”) [summary of papers for the meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): Future of Hong Kong: arrangements for testing the acceptability in Hong Kong of an agreement with the Chinese”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong: constitutional development before 1997”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): future of Hong Kong: agenda item two”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [manpower targets, nationalised industries, contracting out, local authority spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Enterprise Oil") ["A difficulty has arisen on the flotation... the aim was to create an independent exploration and production company in the North Sea. RTZ's holding, if allowed to go through, casts doubt on Enterprise's independence"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Bus White Paper") [background; main issues; presentation/rural areas; fuel duty rebate; London; publication; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [results of the European Council at Fontainebleau including agreement on EC financing system/UK refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Budget Imbalances") [Robin Renwick, David Williamson, Guy Legras: "Legras agreed that... [Dumas] proposal was absurd"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Follow-up to European Council") ["problems with texts published on the Presidency's own authority"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau: French press coverage") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau Summit: German media coverage") ["Outcome of Budget debate generally seen to be fair: a successful Summit"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to Howe PS ("European Council, Prime Minister's Statement to the House") [latest draft with MT amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("The National Health Service: Family Practitioners") [Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Redwood minute to No.10 ("Nationalised Industries Bill") ['The Bill is to be welcomed. It will strengthen powers to allow privatisation...'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Whitelaw minute to MT (Nationalised Industries Bill) ['you should be aware of the need for urgency in finalising the content of the Bill'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Moscow telegram 789 to FCO (1520Z) ("Soviet Soldiers from Afghanistan") [applications for political asylum: text of Soviet MFA speaking note protesting the admission of the soldiers to the UK] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Cockfield minute to MT (“Trade Union Bill”) [points intended to be made at meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson minute to MT (“The Trade Union Bills”) [briefing on sub-committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Letwin minute to Turnbill (“Trade Union Bill”) [King’s fears amendment will be used to ridicule government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Taxation: Treasury record of conversation (“Film Industry”) [“the [corporation tax] changes were likely to have a far greater impact on the film companies’ behaviour” than first thought] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT personal minute to Cabinet colleagues (appointment of Special Advisers from Conservative Research Department) [“the drain on that Department’s manpower resources has become an embarrassment”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Sir Percy Cradock letter to MT (congratulations on Fontainebleau budget settlement) [“It takes courage to fight; it also takes courage to settle …a very defensible deal … an incubus removed”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy internal: local elections”) [results not a reliable guide to standing of national parties] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 22nd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike: dealing with extra policing costs; MT: "hadn't we better go the whole way now?"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Coal Dispute: Numbers At Work") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Martin Bangemann, New Federal Economics Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF and Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Discussion of budgetary imbalances at Fontainebleau”) [Mitterrand presenting outcome as “one in which there were neither victors nor vanquished”; Tietmeyer reaction] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Second session: budgetary imbalances”) [summary of plemary & bilaterals leading to agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: visit of UMELCO delegation to Peking”) [“cold and abrupt”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (UK budget contribution) [grateful for help at Fontainebleau] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands (thanks for help at European Council) [search for solution to budget problem at Fontainebleau] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT to President Mitterrand (Fontainebleau European Council) [thanks for "hospitality … and excellent arramgents", congratulations on a "successful outcome"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Namibia: MT telegram to President Diouf of Senegal (independence) [“South Africa should have left the territory long ago”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("OECD: EDRC meeting on the French economy") ["Milleron described the broad thrust of French economic policy as being to improve the external balance by reducing inflation and slowing the growth of internal demand. Several other statements by Milleron during the course of the meeting illustrate how far French policy has apparently shifted since 1981/82..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT ("Relations with Argentina: First Round of Talks") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("GEC and British Aerospace") [GEC examining takeover bid; "We suggest that... [MT] might put DTI on notice that she is becoming concerned about the apparent inaction"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit letter to Chairman of European Ferries PLC (sale of Sealink) ["The decision not to release European Ferries from the undertaking [not to acquire Sealink] was taken in accordance with the advice of the Director-General of Fair Trading"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Mr. Walker's Statement on Enterprise Oil") ["What could have been a difficult occasion for the Government proved to be very successful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("1982 Risk Sharing Refund") ["We should not put our gain at risk by continuing to pursue the outstanding amount on the 1982 refund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau: French reactions") ["Increasing recognition that British demands were reasonable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau - German government statement and further press reaction") ["Federal Government... upbeat... Press comment by comparison less euphoric"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Outcome of Fontainebleau") ["Colleagues may find it useful to have the attached note explaining the main features of the agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Policy: Possible Conflict of Principles") ["our policy on intervention by one country in the affairs of another... [has] clear implications for the police and the security service... in this country"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["Simple cancellation would... damage Anglo-Irish relations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Fowler") [NHS Management Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 ("Chairman of the NHS Management Board") [salary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 (Deputy Secretary posts) [letter of protest at plans to reduced number of posts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Urban Programme - Policy Review") [recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries' Bill (E(NI) (84) 6") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("ENI: Nationalised Industries Bill") [Chief Whip's concerns about Bill; risk of 'guerilla tactics' by the Opposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Briefing for PMQs (“additional background” on dispute) [strike “regardless of whether civil remedies are sought, society has a right and the duty to protect itself from mob rule”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Enterprise Oil) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs: Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Sir Walter Marshall, Chairman of the CEGB, letter to Walker (report on CEGB meeting with BSC) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("UK/Soviet Relations") [arrangements for Howe visit to Moscow] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Sir Geoffrey Howe's Visit to Moscow") [MT rejects FCO plan to invite Chernenko to UK] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Dr FitzGerald’s Visit to London on 27 June”) [Taoiseach’s “wish that Anglo-Irish relations should not become an object of party controversy in the United Kingdom”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Robert Young minute to MT (“The Urban Programme - Policy Review”) [“Keep an Urban Programme, confine it to, and set clear objectives for, housing, the elimination of derelict land, and the support of voluntary social projects in the worst areas”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to US Embassy (US tax reform measures in relation to imported cars) [“not discriminatory”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Bob Hawke (London Economic Summit outcomes) [Crispin Tickell to brief Hawke on agreements and declarations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Indira Gandhi (London Economic Summit outcomes) [Gandhi’s letter helped with wider perspective in discussions; Crispin Tickell to brief Gandhi on agreements and declarations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [MT disturbed that further loans being considered without satisfactory IMF agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Graesser and others (Welsh party conference) [thank yous, early departure] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Muscat to FCO (“Situation in the Gulf”) [conversation with the Sultan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: discussions on general strategy”) [Youde and Evans visit to London] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ingham minute to Whitelaw (“Local government/London Transport”) [abolition of GLC: media campaign to lay ground for White Paper] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT message to Sultan Qaboos of Oman (Iraq-Iran war) [deployment of UK early warning aircraft] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German economy") ["Lambsdorff's resignation... robs the German economy of one its most distinguished and experienced managers."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1985-86") ["some of the bids may prove to be irresistible"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury briefing for MT (lunch with Sir John Baring) [Baring Brothers; developments on the Stock Exchange; Gower Report on investor protection] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Chairman of European Ferries PLC (sale of Sealink) ["I understand that after giving careful consideration to your suggestions, Norman Tebbit remains of the view that European Ferries should not be released from its undertaking not to acquire Sealink"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [advice on possible further measures; MT: "The lack of progress is disgraceful... I will have a meeting myself with all depts in a fortnight"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (promoting a more positive public attitude to the European Community) ["A more informal and flexible system run by Bernard himself rather than by the FCO would be more effective"; MT unconvinced of need for campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Affairs/Defence Seminar at Chequers") [MT agrees to proposed date of 1 October; supporting items document the thematic development of the seminar] [declassified Jan 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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