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PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Richard Luce minute for MT (“Commercial Management of the Royal Dockyards - Management Bid”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3345 to FCO (1645Z) (“Shultz’s visit to Europe next week”) [Shultz “satisfied that the alliance is in pretty good shape after the Geneva summit, and that trade problems between the community and the US manageable”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [“This is not simply a matter of accounting practice: it is a crucial issue… for the support of our defence capabilities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Walker letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hurd letter to Lord Young (concordat on inter-departmental arrangements on deregulation) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Farewell Call by the New Zealand High Commissioner on the Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Luxembourg Council: further Italian press reaction”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Addison (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [advice and information for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: City University postgraduate students letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [request to attend MT-chaired event as observers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Action Committee for Europe") ["...to remind [MT/Howe] before the Luxembourg European Council of the Committee's priorities"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office letter to Baker PS ("The Financing and Administration of Land Drainage Prevention of Flooding, and Coast Protection in England and Wales") ["...issues arising from the Green Paper...": administrative support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Owen ("Short, fat ships: warning") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Eminent Persons Group: Possibility of the Prime Minister Seeing General Obasanjo") ["keen to have a private talk with [MT]... [is] in a position to play a key role in the Group"; MT agrees] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Whitelaw minute for MT (‘Westland ’) [cannot attend meeting; allow Westland board to make up its own mind] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, Lawson] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walters minute for No.10 (present fiscal and monetary conditions) [markets see fiscal policy as “suspiciously loose”; monetary conditions “clearly rather tight”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: John MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“Training Loans”) [highlights issues of concern but supportive in principle] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Biffen letter to Hurd (“Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Bill”) [agrees with opposing the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Wicks (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [staff attitudes “are somewhat negative”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [“excellent opportunity to improve performance… is in danger of being wasted”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Conclusions of ‘H’ committee on 3 December”) [liquor licensing laws and the NHS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“Home Secretary’s minutes: 1. The Strategic View of Crime 2. Exclusion Orders”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Brittan letter to Lord Young (new arrangements for implementing the deregulation initiative) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ray Whitney letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“Home Secretary’s minutes: 1. The Strategic View of Crime (3 December) 2. Exclusion Orders (4 December)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Armstrong minute to MT ("Subversion in Public Life") [sends report by interdepartmental group, focussed on the civil service] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Armstrong minute to MT ("Subversion in Public Life") [actions taken; special check on subversives in higher ranks - "none of them at these levels are active troublemakers"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [Kenneth Baker’s Green Paper: main elements and comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to No.10 ("some thoughts on the present fiscal and monetary conditions") [ease monetary policy in 1986, tightening control of public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [still sounds complacent; MT disagrees] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 7 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 9 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Chapters 1-5, annexes C & G, chapters on Wales and Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [“The struggle has continued over the weekend” attaches DTI-MOD papers for meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (“Telephone conversation between Sir Brian Hayes & Sir Raymond Lygo”) [BAe terms for investing in Westland] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 390 to FCO (2000Z) ("Greek Cypriot General Elections") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to R.O. Miles (European Council meeting in Luxembourg) [letter of thanks for hospitality] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to D.H.A. Hannay (European Council meeting in Luxembourg) [“a fairly trying occasion but I think we came out of it in good shape”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Jacques Santer of Luxembourg (European Council meeting in Luxembourg) [thanks for “effective and persistent Chairmanship”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy/EC”) [“Italian opposition to the outcome of the Luxembourg Council is weakening”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Young minute to MT ("The Sainsbury Group") ["...a very valuable source of ideas and experience on planning..."; recommends the Government continue to utilise it] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Sainsbury Group") ["Tomorrow's meeting takes place at your suggestion... ensuring that the... original proposals are being followed up... [and] pressing DOE Ministers... to speed up and simplify the planning process"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Michael Howard briefing for MT ("Planning policy") [meeting with Sainsbury Group on 10 December - "...a couple of points which I should like to raise..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on 10 December with Sir John Sainsbury's Group") [analysis of Sainsbury proposals to date and idenitification of priority issues for the Group to address in future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local governement finance: specific grants") [Lawson-chaired working group interim report on "...the role and extent of specific grants in funding local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils") ["...now evidence of concerted efforts to spend as much as possible... before abolition... In the case of the GLC... giving money to organisations... involved in perpetuating the policies of the GLC... we must introduce legislation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; recent landmine explosions in Northern Transvaal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe letter to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link: Compensation") [distinction between cancellation for political & for defence reasons] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Hurd letter to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link") ["security, policing, frontier control and jurisdictional questions"; representation on Intergovernmental Commission] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link - Hobson's Choice?") [MT rejects advice that she propose a voluntary merger between two of the bids] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland’) [relative merits of proposals; no MOD market for Blackhawks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [Heseltine minute goes against agreement; government should not impose its own judgment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan-Mayhew minute for MT (‘Fraud’) [policies & institutions to combat] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Douglas Hurd minute for Whitelaw (“Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4324 to FCO (2023Z) (“ECOFIN Council: 9 December 1985) [Annual Economic Report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MOD minute for No.10 (“Royal Dockyards”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Tebbit letter to MT (Cental Office staffing) [Michael Dobbs to be Chief of Staff; drop Hal Miller as Vice-Chairman; Chris Lawson to assist Harvey Thomas] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Young letter to Hurd (“Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Bill”) [agrees with opposing the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Mr McFarlane’s Briefing to the Prime Minister 23 November: SDI”) [McFarlane cited “the threat from Soviet mobile mirved systems as a prime justification for the SDI”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Post Geneva summit US/Soviet Activity”) [appointment of US ambassador, Reagan message on human rights] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tom King minute to MT (“Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower and Departmental Running Costs”) [minor upward adjustment in interim targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [latest figures; “overall reduction [of] 18.6 per cent since the Government took office”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Wicks letter to Armstrong ("Subversion in Public Life") [MT response to interdepartmental report - widen study to include local government, education, NHS; use dismissals; disquieted to learn some higher officials involved] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Shridath Ramphal message to Commonwealth Heads of Government (Consultative Group on International Monetary and Financial Issues) [suggested next meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Giles Shaw letter to MT (“Football Hooliganism”) [police powers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Michael Jopling letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Banking Supervision White Paper: Chancellor’s Foreword”) [MT approves Lawson's personal draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS minute to Treasury (“White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence ("Royal College of Defence Studies") [MT unimpressed on her visit (thought it bland, lethargic, complacent, smug); calls for review of College's future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kenneth Baker, Lord Young, David Trippier, Michael Howard, Sir John Sainsbury & colleagues) ["Planning: the Sainsbury Group"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Biffen, Mayhew, MacGregor, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Baker ("Water charges and investment") ["I am not happy with your letter to me dated 2 December proposing that John Patten should look forward to "a more favourable trend" in future water charges..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 5th ("Draft Green Paper on Local Government Finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [TSRB possibly; the markets, monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Cuckney) [rival bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“Westland Helicopters”) [persuade company to release more information to European consortium] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: John Wakeham note for Nigel [Wicks] (talk with Heseltine) [Heseltine thinks meeting on Friday a “Constitutional Necessity”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for Norgrove (“Financial Services Bill: Indemnity for designated agencies”) [Brittan & Hailsham at odds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Peter Brooke PS (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [“unattractive options for how the United Kingdom should vote”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Managing Director’s One Day Visit to London - 3 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Wicks minute (“Progress Chasing”) [MT requests review of arrangements for “progress chasing of ourstanding letters, remits to departments, actions, etc”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shultz) [Reagan-Gorbachev arms control talks: movement on Arab/Israel conflict] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Secretary of State for Social Services minute to MT (“Local Government Finance”) [domestic rates reform] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison to MT (dinner celebrating 250th anniversary of No.10) [her speech “better, but not too much better than the Queen’s”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Follow-up to the European Council: possible statement on Geneva Summit & East/West”) [No.10 welcomes decision not to issue statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [policy advice for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute: Wicks to Powell ("State Visit of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany") [Kohl keen to accompany President Weizsäcker] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding") [consideration of measures to curb and control spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Lobbyists") ["... motion to confirm and clarify the responsibilities of Members with regard to the registration in the Register of Members' interests, and declaration, of their paid activities as Parliamentary 'advisers' and 'consultants'] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to Younger ("Falkland Islands Transport Project") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") ["we should take steps to prevent disclosure of passages in the diary (...) on grounds of public interest immunity"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Colombo telegram to FCO ("Sri Lanka/UNGA Falklands Vote") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: UKE Paris telegram 1111 to FCO (1224Z) ("Channel Fixed Link") [arrangements for MT/Mitterrand meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office briefing for meeting (“Westlands E(A)(85)72”) [background] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to French, German & Italian Defence Ministers (“Future of the European Helicopter Industry”) [must finalise European bid by Friday; “the appropriate committee of the cabinet meets at 3pm that day”] [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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