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PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Northern Ireland: confiscation of IRA funds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("European Council: Parliamentary Statement") [MT draft statement with annotations; Hansard transcript; various other drafts with annotations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: European Council draft Presidency Conclusions ("European Council Brussels, 29 and 30 March 1985 Draft Conclusions") [includes MT annotations and handwritten notes by officials] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: ?FCO briefing for MT press conference ("European Council: Brussels 29-30 March 1985") [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
Text 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: ?Butler note ("Seminar on local government finance") ["Note for background briefing by press officers"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Waldegrave, Whitelaw, Jenkin, Younger, Baker, Edwards, Rees, Young, Gummer, Ancram; Rothschild, Butler, Heiser, Redwood, Brearley, Meyer) [Chequers seminar on local government finance studies - origins of community charge] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ingham minute to MT ("Soccer Hooligans") [arrangements for Brittan/Jenkin press conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MacGregor letter to miners (end of the miners' strike) ['every effort must be made to restore harmony within the industry'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (NUM Yorkshire Area annual report for 1984) ['illustrates fairly clearly the attitudes and present thinking of the NUM at Area level'] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 note of conversation (Julian Bullard phone message) [message to Horst Teltschik delivered; Britain left out of three-way consultations between FRG, French and Italians] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ryder minute for Butler ("Rates Meeting") [possible dates for E(LF)] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Robin Butler (Public Expenditure Survey) ["a difficult Survey is in prospect"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Stephen Sherbourne minute to John Redwood (Transport and Public Expenditure) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Reform of the Police Complaints System") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Football Association and Football League Representatives-Ministers) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Tebbit-Lamont-Gregson-Warry) ["British Leyland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Rees letter to Jopling ("Transfer of Costs of Early Retirement to Deparmental Votes") [redundancy implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Ingham minute to MT ("Robert Maxwell - Drugs") [Maxwell paper, following up meeting with MT, calling for a Drugs Supremo and legislation to confiscate gains] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 185 to FCO (0830Z) ("Integrated Mediterranean Programmes (IMPS): Greek Reactions") [government present IMPS settlement as a diplomatic triumph, opposition criticism of Greece coming off badly] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 188 to FCO (1120Z) ("Greek Politics") [New Democracy boycott of Sartzetakis presidency, possible early elections] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Schoolteachers") [rejects Keith Joseph/George Younger joint proposals for performance-related pay; wider public sector context; diversion of public expenditure savings; pay negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Teachers") [pay negotiations; countermeasures against ongoing industrial dispute; Government legal complaint of privilege against teachers in Scotland; teaching standards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Soares letter to MT (accession of Portugal to the EC) [thanks to UK on conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Lord Young PS ("Deregulation") [MT speaking note used at European Council meeting, 29-30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 315 to FCO (1606Z) ("European Council: German Reactions") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 274 to FCO (1713Z) ("European Council, Enlargement and IMPs: French Press and Other Reactions") ["extensive and generally positive to the successful conclusion of negotiations for Spanish and Portugese accession"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 329 to FCO (1530Z) ("European Council: Italian Press Comment") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 1215 to FCO (1600Z) ("Prime Minister's Initiative on Deregulation") [action to follow-up MT statement at European Council, 29-30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi telegram 433 to FCO (0620Z) ("Westlands") [rival candidates; aid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Jedda telegram 187 to FCO (0822Z) ("Call on Saudi Oil Minister") [Patrick Wright, Yamani: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Timothy Raison letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka") [Samanala Wewa project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to South East Asia: Speeches") [early drafts made available, to form basis of translations and press releases] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [MT seeks advice of Howe & Heseltine on advisability of stop-off en route to, or on way back from, her tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Robin Ibbs (Prime Minister's Visit to Malaysia) [Single Cell Protein project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Richard Luce PS letter to V. W. Miller (Prime Minister's Visit to Brunei) [Brunei Chinese] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Chairman of the General Electric Company PLC, Jim Prior letter to MT (Prime Minister's tour of South East Asia) [details of "a number of projects in which GEC are deeply interested"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Asia, 4-13 April 1985") [general brief] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine minute to Whitelaw ("The Royal Dockyards") [outline of intended policy & legislative requirements, in making case for inclusion of Bill in 1985-86 legislative programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chairman of the Post Office letter to MT (industrial dispute) [explanatory note for MPs, of ongoing issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to Fowler PS (reply to Mr Dale Campbell-Savours MP: future of benefit entitlement for 16 and 17 year olds) [revised draft] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL)") [comments on draft Guidelines for proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT (energy savings in the Government estate) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alison note for MT (talk with Michael Eaton) [possible appointment to NCB Board; ways to keep him in London] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [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) 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]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [MT agrees to visit Saudi Arabia on her way back from South East Asia; Defence briefing attached] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: MT message to Andreas Papandreou (European City of Culture) [UK representation at inauguration ceremony in Athens] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Younger, Edwards, Biffen, Michael Havers, Nicholas Scott) ["School Teachers": pay; teaching standards; industrial disruption; contracts & conditions of service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("Education and Training for Young People") [final version of White Paper on Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("East-West Relations") [Soviet academic paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Kuala Lumpur telegram 214 to FCO (1100Z) ("PM's Visit: Air Services Dispute") [Mahathir Mohamad, David Gillmore: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Lord Avebury (Prime Minister's tour of South East Asia) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: John Murray letter to MT (Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka) [former member of Ceylon Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Geoffrey Dickens MP letter to MT ("Far East Visit") [request for 3 flights per week from Singapore to Manchester] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Saudi Arabia") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT ("Visit by the Prime Minister to Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [lines to take on proposed sale] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office letter to FCO ("Proposed Science and Technology Agreement with Indonesia") [Robin Nicholson outlines his reservations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Rees letter to Patrick Jenkin ("New Burdens on Local Government") [identifying equivalent savings; guidance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 1st (“Lessons of the miners’ strike”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note for the record (points made by working miners at working miners’ dinner) ['Some managers, out of a desire to conciliate the militants, were failing to protect the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [list of responses to invitations for inscriptions] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [need to “save the situation in Scotland”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Michael Havers letter to Brittan (“UK-US extradition treaty”) [“The retention of Article IV should not … be seen as essential to satisfy our obligations under the Convention”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe minute to Brittan (“UK/US extradition”) [“There is no way of discovering to what extent the Americans want to press their demand without being frank with them about the difficulties it would cause us”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Airports Policy”) [issues to be considered by the Sub-Committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: C.E. Needham letter to MT (“Fishing Off the Falkand Islands”) [headlines, economy, foreign debt, human rights, armed forces, Falklands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Education & Jobs” & “Education & Training for Young People”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
Text 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Hailsham, Biffen, Havers, Wakeham, Lord Denham) [“Lenient Sentences”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Heiser letter to Armstrong ("Local Government Finance Studies") [tight timetable for working up Waldegrave recommendations for May; need for cooperation among departments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [need to take account of arts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [need to establish a baseline] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Geoffrey Howe minute to Paul Channon ("Carriage of Aid Cargoes to India") [aid agreement is not being respected at the operating level] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit-Moore-Gregson-Warry) ["British Leyland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit manuscript minute to MT (Austin Rover and Honda) [draft memorandum of understanding, "for your eyes only at this stage"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to Butler ("Austin Rover and Honda") [comment on draft press statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: HM Customs & Excise letter to Barney Hayhoe ("Threatened "Work to Rule" - Clearance of Passengers/Accompanied Cars") [situation report] [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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