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PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [Pik Botha trails President Botha’s speech in Durban 15 Aug; MT hopes for "a great advance"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (Addison, Laurens van der Post) [what to say during his visit - rely on personal judgment following long talks with MT] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 10 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Aug 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 100”) [“the lowest level of Conservative support found in any survey conducted by Gallup since December, 1981”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Ian Stewart letter to Heseltine ("Multi-Departmental Review of Budgeting") [progress] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Edwards minute to MT ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [comments on Walker's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [response to Chancellor of the Exchequer's comments] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: McFarlane email to White House (planning for policy announcement) [declassified 1999]
Text 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [response to Walker's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT (train crash in France) [message of thanks from Prime Minister Fabius for MT letter offering condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan minute to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") [confiscation of drug traffickers' assets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [plans for response to President Botha’s speech in Durban 15 Aug] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 11 (“Coal supplies to power stations”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MOD minute to MT (“British National Space Centre”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Adam Butler minute to MT ("Quarterly Report on Defence Sales and Prospects 1st April to 30th June 1985") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“President Botha’s Speech of 15 August”) ["not as positive as we had been led to believe it would be"] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud letter to MT (Middle East peace process & sale of Tornado/Hawk aircraft) [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury internal minute to Chancellor of the Exchquer (“Profit Sharing, Co-operatives, Two-tier Wages and Jobs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Scottish Office letter to No.10 (“Football Hooliganism: installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud) [sale of Tornado/Hawk aircraft; Middle East peace process] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: William Davis memorandum for MT (brief comments on common criticisms of government) [out of touch - big three "grey, dull, uninspiring, self-righteous, and smug"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 101”) [“the lowest level of Conservative support since late 1981”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Williams Davis paper for MT (media charges against her) [suggested rejoinders] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Nicholas Scott letter to Leon Brittan ("Confiscation of the Profits of Drug Trafficking") ["you asked whether orders made by English and Welsh courts against offenders who hold assets in Northern Ireland will be enforceable here"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Japanese Embassy letter to MT (JAL passenger air crash) [acknowledgement from PM Nakasone of MT condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Treasury record of conversation (trade and economic issues) [Geoffrey Littler, Japanese Ambassador: Western concerns about capital inflow/outflow imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: McFarlane letter to MT (President found your comments helpful) [declassified ?2000]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi letter to MT (apartheid) [case for "effective political and economic pressures"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Flesher minute for MT (‘Presentation’) [ways of making better use of the Commons] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("Ravenscraig") [Scottish response to announcement of long-term strategy for British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: John Moore letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86 and 1986-87") [Building Societies and Banking Bills] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor (“National Institute Economic Review for August”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [settlement “will dispose of one of the major legal problems which have been delaying privatisation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker’s PS minute to Joseph (“GLC County Hall”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit PS letter to Cabinet Office ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [amendments to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes (annotated list of ministers) [plus Ingham's list of junior ministers who "might go"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Sherbourne minute for MT ("very personal views") [reshuffle, Parkinson, PR advice for Lawson, backbenchers, do very few formal political tv interviews] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wolfson notes ("Ministerial changes") [drop Hailsham, Joseph, Jenkin; leave Walker; Heseltine for DTI?] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 102”) [sharp contrast between Gallup and Marplan polls] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 (“New UEFA Rules”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 (“Football Progress Report”) [public order & safety] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: George Younger minute to MT (“MISC 109: Edinburgh”) [budget reductions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud (sale of Tornado & Hawk aircraft to Saudi Arabia) ["We consider this an extremely important order"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud (sale of Tornado/Hawk aircraft and the Middle East peace process) [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Education Seminar") [programme; arrangements; Ministerial attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [circulation of revised drafts for comment] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“Space”) [formation of a British National Space Centre] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC New Delhi to FCO (“India: South Africa”) [Rajiv Gandhi feels so strongly on sanctions he is writing to MT] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Mark Addison minute to MT ("An update after the Prince's Visit") [Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia visit to UK; report on his meeting with Defence Sales; reaction to letters from MT for himself & King Fahd] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Mark Addison minute to MT ("The Daily Mail Story") [article alleges an investigation and a report submitted by police to No.10; police, Home Office & No.10 deny knowledge] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 374 to UKE Jedda (0600Z) ("Tornado and Hawk") [cover message for MT letters to King Fahd & Prince Sultan] [declassified Jul 2015]
Text 85 Aug 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (nuclear weapons tests) [announcement of moratorium, seeks a decision on a universal ban] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter for MT (the cessation of nuclear weapon tests) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 minute to MT ("Request for a Meeting by Lord Kadoorie") [Guangdong Nuclear Project] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Secretary General Ramphal (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Nassau) [MT's comments on the Agenda] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Mark Addison minute to MT (letter from Gorbachev) [content is said to be urgent, timing for receipt] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Jedda telegram 506 to FCO (0800Z) ("Message to King Fahd and Prince Sultan") [delivery] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards PS letter to Howe PS (European Parliament examination of the impact of 'steel crisis' in South Wales) [Edwards invited to give evidence to Committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland) [Anglo-Irish agreement: joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Kohl/Mitterrand meeting on 24 August: German impressions") ["...convergence of views on long term objectives, but agreement on few if any concrete points."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Managing Director of Nissan (Invitation to open manufacturing plant in Sunderland) [accepts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Gowrie minute to MT (points arising from conversation on Friday) [his successor, other appointments] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Tebbit letter to MT (offers his thoughts) [drop Jenkin, Rees, possibly King; bring back Cecil; Lamont as Chief Secretary; move Heseltine] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Parish Councils”) [misuse of power] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 811 to FCO ("Hetman") [Ambassador's paper for Foreign Secretary - essential to maintain dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Mark Addison ("Call by our Ambassador in Moscow on Mr Gorbachev") [Cartledge summoned; speaking note agreed on bilateral relations, east-west understanding; UKE Moscow tel 1109 28 Aug 0725Z] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Biffen PS ("Ministerial Dealings with Sinn Fein Members") [any request for a meeting should be refused] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish agreement: marching season in Northern Ireland; joint courts; Ulster Defence Regiment; Anglo-Irish summit and communique; expenditure fund in Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health and Social Security minute for No.10 (“Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome”) [current state of play & educational leaflets] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy to No.10 (statement by SAG) [black communities at Kwangema and Driefontein will not be forced to move] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Lord Rothschild letter to President Botha (Rothschild meeting with Worrall and de Kock) [Botha needs urgently to announce that he has decided to renounce apartheid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [possible British terms] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy in London letter to Powell (“KwaNgema and Driefontein”) [statement by the Deputy Minister of Development and Land Affairs] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Possible Machinery of Government Changes") [transfer of responsibilities from DTI to Dept. Employment; Dept. of Employment approach to unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT (achieving value for money in Government) [need for Ministers to commit to the task] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Mark Addison minute to MT ("250th Anniversary") [anniversary of PM's residence: invitation to NSPCC children; MT fears too late] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury paper ("PES 1985: Home Office Additional Bids") [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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