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PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (Value for Money targets) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Money and Interest Rates”) [Chancellor no longer wanting a cut this week] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 684 to FCO (0545Z) ("Elena Bonner") [arrival back in Russia, following medical treatment abroad] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: MT letter to Sir Edward du Cann (All-Party Maritime Affairs Group) [request for meeting to discuss merchant shipping] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger minute for Howe ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“EC/New Zealand: visit of Prime Minister Lange”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No. 10 minute for MT (“Public Expenditure”) [Lawson “EXTREMELY anxious” about public spending & taxation section in MT’s speech] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Big Bang”) [deregulation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brian Griffiths briefing for MT (“Education - Changing Public Perceptions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (“Junior Ministers: Follow-up to seminar on 8 November 1985”) [MT to speak to Cabinet to give civil service reforms “a push”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (economy, public expenditure, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT letter to Chairman of ACARD (Council’s report on medical equipment industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [proposed dissolution of Assembly, could give impression that policies have run into a cul-de-sac] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Meeting of Ministers on 5 June") [proposed dissolution of Assembly, wider policy issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Howe-Hurd-King) [failure of Assembly to carry out statutory functions, proposed dissolution, decision would need to be presented with finesse] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 691 to FCO (0630Z) ("Visit o[f] of a British IPU Delegation to the Soviet Union, 23 May - 2 June") [summary of visit] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("US/Soviet Relations and Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Chairman of Cable & Wireless Ltd letter to Howe (transPacific fibre optic cable) [press release announcing proposed US-Japan joint venture] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa internal") [situation report: "clamp down on the continuing violence... I believe we may have reached something of a watershed"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [money markets, public spending, education] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Douglas Hurd minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey”) [the Home Office bids for additional resources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Warry minute for Powell (“Privatisation of the Royal Ordnance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“School Teachers’ Pay Negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hippies, law and order, NHS, public spending) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Richard Luce letter to MT (“Scrutiny of Occupational Health and Hygiene Provision throughout the Civil Service”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Chirac (Foundation for Age Research) [Paris to London fundraising relay] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tunis telegram to FCO ("PLO's reaction to Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...fiercely critical..."; MT: "What a shower they are!"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The shipbuilding industry") ["[My] report will contain some recommendations in its own right. It will also, however, provide the background to a number of specific operational questions due to come to Ministers in the next few weeks"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Hill-Norton letter to Younger ("Hull Forms for Warships") [concerns about the terms of reference of the Inquiry] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Confidentiality of Normal Vetting (NV)") ["If, as a result of a breach, it became necessary to discuss NV with the Defence Committee... there should be no reference to the role of the police, who have co-operated... on the understanding that the practice would remain confidential"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to Younger ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (negotiations about the democratic future of South Africa) ["We strongly believe that... [our] negotiating concept is sound... difficult to understand how the term suspension of violence provides difficulties for the South African Government... a prior reduction in the level of violence before the Government itself takes specific action... would not be feasible"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: FCO record of conversation (1200Z) (Howe, Osama al-Baz) [Egyptian national security advisor: Middle East peace process/role of PLO; Egyptian economy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Dr. Osama al-Baz") [Egyptian national security advisor: Middle East peace process/role of PLO; EC Presidency] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke letter to Ian Lang (“European Social Fund - Position for 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Jopling minute for MacGregor (“PES: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food”) [bids for expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Paul Channon minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: Office of Fair Trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Channon) [deregulation of financial markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-MacGregor) [education capital receipts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Education”) [Baker’s proposals for extra expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“TVEI”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MT speech signals tax cuts, hippies, law and order, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to Caroline Ryder ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver: 11-13 July 1986") [outline programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Assembly") [Assembly is "behaving in a totally irresponsible manner" but dissolution is not intended to be permanent] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland Assembly: OD Meeting at 10.30 on Monday 9 June") [decision on proposed dissolution, timing and presentation, Council of Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 511 to FCO (0830Z) ("Land Elections in Lower Saxony, 15 June") [narrow win for CDU/FDP a relief for coalition in Bonn] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0134) [Arms control - Reagan suggests Soviets might view SDI test] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Alan Clark PS letter to No.10 (meeting with German Federal Economics Minister and French Trade Minister) [advance notification to No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local government finance") ["Ministers at E(LA) have begun squaring up for the 1987-88 RSG Settlement. You might find it helpful to have a progress report"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for Home Secretary ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [Civil Contingencies Unit to consider lessons and "prepare appropriate new plans for the future"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO telegram to UKE The Hague ("My Call on Lubbers and Van den Broek: 1600-1730 on 6 June") [Howe record of conversation] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: President Botha") [meeting with European Heads of Government proposed by Pik Botha; Howe reports on soundings with Genscher & Raimond: "neither liked the idea"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Lubbers, van den Broek) ["South Africa": further sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr. Osama al-Baz, Youssef Abd Elaziz Shrarah) [meeting with Egyptian national security advisor & Egyptian ambassador: MT visit to Israel; Middle East peace process/role of PLO; EC Presidency; Taba; official Egyptian visits to UK] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“European Council, 26-27 June”) [the possible agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Community 1986 Budget”) [implications for the forthcoming UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Fowler minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: Social Security and DHSS Administration”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Northern Ireland Office minute for MacGregor (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey”) [proposals for additional resources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Fowler minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: OPCS”) [additional resources for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Baker-Whitelaw; MT-MacGregor) [education spending; introduction of GCSEs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor minute for Nicholas Edwards (“HMI Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1516 to FCO (1630Z) (“Geneva negotiations: new Soviet proposals”) [“for a ban on ASATS and a ban on the offensive use of defensive systems … such linkage would be bad news”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (“The Week Ahead”) [hippies, US extradition, World Cup] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hippies, general election, health, education) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Unwin minute to Roberts (“Remuneration of Legal Profession”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Community Radio") [results of experiment] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Lord Chancellor's PS letter to Charles Powell ("Australia Constitution Act") [advises against permanent loan of original to Australia] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKE The Hague ("My Call on Lubbers and Van Den Broek: 6 June - Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT ("South Africa: Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["have agreed and signed their report"; their work at end, no recommendation for action; next steps] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Nigel Wicks minute to FCO Finance Division ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver") [cost of PM's reception] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Geneva Negotiations: Soviet Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Energy: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (post-Chernobyl) ["the main task is to ensure that there should be no more nuclear accidents"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("MISC 118") [comments on draft paper for cabinet committee: "Little if anything is said about the likely impact of measures on South Africa... the case for measures seems to depend primarily on the need to maintain our position in the Commonwealth, the Community and the Third World"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report; further measures; MT: "Front Line States... would in turn seek aid to compensate them, which we would be in no position to provide"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: ComGEP") [Eminent Persons Report: "general feeling in the Group was that they were being strung along... unlikely to be able to play any further role... very high risk of increased violence... need to prepare our position as thoroughly - and as quickly - as possible... [Howe] observes... before long we... [will] have exhausted the scope for minor, relatively painless measures"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nicholas Edwards minute for MacGregor (“1986 Interdepartmental PES”) [the Welsh Office additional bids] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Paul Channon letter for MacGregor (Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) additional public expenditure bids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Paul Channon minute for Financial Secretary to the Treasury (“Privatisation of British Airways, British Airports Authority and Rolls-Royce”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young minute to MT (“The Proposed National Council for Vocational Qualifications”) [MT: “horrified… a quango to end all quangos”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Channon letter to MacGregor (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Yardsticks for the success of budgeting in departments”) [MT request for measurable evaluation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [“The Peacock report on the BBC”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [hippies, caning, Austrian election, SOGAT conference, SDP] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (SDP/Alliance, South Africa, hippies, economy, pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley minute to MT (“Football Spectator Violence”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Caroline Ryder minute to MT ("Your Visit to Canada: Hair") [draft programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver: Concorde Flight on Friday 11 July") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to UN Secretary-General (draft framework agreement on Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Budapest telegram 123 to FCO (1447Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to Hungary: 8-9 June") [summary & analysis] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Paris telegram 38 to FCO (1447Z) ("Mitterrand's Visit to Moscow") [] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler letter to Lord Young (‘Restart’ pilot scheme: cases of failure to comply) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Channon letter to Kenneth Clarke (“European Community: UK Initiative on Creating Conditions for Employment Growth”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO (MT discussion on Nimrod project) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Secretary-General of the Commonwealth letter to MT ("Mission to South Africa Report of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") ["the report leaves little doubt that... there will not have been adequate progress... the question arises as to what further measures Commonwealth governments will adopt"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pik Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (negotiations) [preconditions for, process and nature of the negotiations: "unacceptable that violence or the threat of violence should be used as a bargaining counter"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report) [encloses conclusions; MT: "It is worse than I thought"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report: message from Chancellor Kohl) ["anxious to avoid any substantive reaction... until he had a chance to co-ordinate views with you"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe telegram to UKE The Hague (“Informal EC Foreign Ministers Weekend: Heemkerk, 8 June”) [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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