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PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKE Seoul telegram 232 to FCO (0300Z) ("IMF/IBRD Annual Meeting: Development Committee") [record of 27th meeting on 7 October 1985] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell letter to Lord Lewin (project to restore the wartime operations room at Lascarts) [potential topic to be raised with MT by Prime Minister of Malta at next Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Malaysian Projects") ["My Minister shares the concern which... [MT] has expressed about the Malaysian Government's handling of... [UK] contracts"; MT talks with Dr Mahathir at Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3270 to FCO (2015Z) ("Preparatory Group for IGC: Brussels 7/8 October") ["death of a thousand cuts on most... proposals"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Home Office letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Discussions on Northern Ireland: Ministerial Security") [implications of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Restocking of CEGB Power Stations") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter for President Reagan (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: her views) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: MT's draft reply to President Reagan) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 120: Position Paper") [position reached after bilaterals with ministers] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: Egyptian Minister of Housing & Utilities letter to MT (Cairo Wastewater Project) [acknowledgement of MT thanks & of her role in enabling the UK/Egypt project to go ahead] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Ridley minute to MT (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - content with conclusions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: President Reagan letter to MT ("Terrorist seizure of Achille Lauro ") ["no intention of acting precipitously … [but] this act cannot become another protracted hostage situation"] [declassified 2001]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Common Agricultural Policy: buttressing a policy of price restraint”) [MT: “The paper reveals an appalling state of affairs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter to Howe (“European Convention on Human Rights: renewal of option Clauses 25 and 46 (Right of Individual Petition and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court”) [MT opposed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT draft letter to Conservative Friends of Israel (invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation) [“this is not an invitation to the PLO, nor does it signify a change in our attitude to that organisation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT draft letter to Conservative Friends of Israel (invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation) [“this is not an invitation to the PLO, nor does it signify a change in our attitude to that organisation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to Whitelaw (“Appeal Court Judgement: 1985-6 Targets”) [Nottingham and Bradford expenditure targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO(“Letter from President Nyerere to the Prime Minister”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Deregulation, City Action Teams, and Tourism) [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Chairman of the Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations letter to MT (plight of the Turkish Cypriot people) [request for MT to meet delegation in advance of Commonwealth conference in Bahamas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Chairman of Shell letter to MT (negotiations between Shell and Brunei Government over oil and gas arrangements) [status report in advance of Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: US Congress letter to MT (UK Government policy in the Middle East) [Defence sales to Saudi Arabia; talks with PLO] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally; amended draft Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Timing of Summit") [Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe draft letter to Shultz (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva: Soviet counter-proposals) [outline of Howe's initial impressions of the proposals; Charles Powell advises redraft to emphasise need for US to present fresh proposals of their own] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2819 to FCO (2130Z) ("Interpretation of the ABM Treaty") [McFarlane's interview] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Soviet Nuclear Arms Control Counter-Proposals: Briefing of the Council by Nitze") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for September 1985") ["...industrial production is increasing... inflation is down... surplus on trade... unemployment continues to rise..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") ["It is important that colleagues should start thinking now what Bills they want to bid for so that the bids themselves reflect so far as possible developed rather than purely broad-brush ideas"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [drafts for approval] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Exchange Rate Mechanism") [draft Q&A-format briefing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Macgregor PS minute to Whitelaw PS (Star Chamber) [how to minimise press speculation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Review of Social Security") [draft MISC III paper: "What is not at all clear... is the public expenditure and PSBR implications"; timing of implementation of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“we should not pursue the idea of a graduate tax”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Conservative Friends of Israel letter to MT (meeting with CFI National Delegation) [peace talks, terrorism, UN resolutions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Conservative Friends of Israel letter to MT (meeting with CFI National Delegation) [peace talks, terrorism, UN resolutions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [MT request for improved, and value-for-money, management training] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Nassau telegram to FCO (“South Africa and CHOGM”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions and international aid) [Mozambique, Angola, the Nkomati Accord] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan in New York”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Wednesday lunchtime draft”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Crown Prosecution Service") [response to letter from Prosecuting Solicitors' Society] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado/Hawk") [details of London-based Arabic-language press report on alleged deal] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong's report of latest round of talks with Nally; date of summit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (British Museum: Japanese Gallery proposal) [MT rejects suggestion that she write "begging" letter to PM Nakasone to encourage fundraising in Japan for the required £5m] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Debate on the Address") [Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament: proposed topics for MT speech for the Debate] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute (internal) ("Social Security") [gainers & losers from Green Paper proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Treasury (“Cost of Introducing Transferable Allowances”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“basic reservations about the graduate tax proposal which runs into many of the disadvantages of a student loan scheme”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Northern Ireland Office minute to No.10 (Anne Mueller speech on excellence in public sector) [personnel management initiatives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Nyerere (sanctions against South Africa: British position) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Pindling of the Bahamas (Comonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Italy: CIA National Intelligence Daily (“Italy/Middle East - Achille Lauro hijacking ends”) [likely the work of Syrian-backed PLO groups wanting "to discredit Arafat and derail the peace process"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Lange of New Zealand (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Mulroney of Canada (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Hawke of Australia (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Banda (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Jonathan of Lesotho (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Prince Bhekimpi of Swaziland (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Masire (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Mugabe (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Kaunda (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Babangida (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lawson minute to MT (“PWLB Lending to Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Iraqi Foreign Minister to London") [urges that MT renew invitation to Tariq Aziz] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM: Attendance by National Representatives") ["None of these people should... attend any of the formal sessions... there will, however, be mingling in the margins"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (fighter aircraft) [proposal for European study and programming group] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [suggestion that Brian Mawhinney is included in internal meeting of Northern Ireland Office on presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [King suggests amendments; response to allegations of leaks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 1610 to UKE Washington (1116Z) ("Geneva Talks: Soviet Counter Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Mitterrand letter to MT (European Fighter Aircraft: cooperation in military aircraft design and production) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Memorandum on the 8th and 14th Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 1984/85) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report on the Review of Social Security") [Green Paper proposals; consultation reactions; proposed modifications; main issues; pensions; other social security policy proposals; timing; interaction with local government finance proposals; future processing; handling; conclusions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("What Should We Do About SERPS?") [options] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [MISC 111, banking supervision, exchange rate mechanism, Green Paper on taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Lawson (“Green Paper on Personal Taxation: Effect on Married Women’s Incentive to Work”) [overseas experience suggests no disincentive] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Lawson (“Green Paper: Who are the ‘Losers’?”) [hardly any, but there are "non-gainers"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Michael Fidler (Jordanian/Palestinian delegation to London) [“Our decision to receive a delegation in London is intended to strengthen the resolve of moderate Palestinians to make progress”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Industrial action by CPSA at Companies Registration Office”) [“a firm stand is needed, especially in view of the programme of improvements in efficiency over the next several years”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (“Information Pack: British Policy Towards South Africa”) [need to “get across how much Britain is already doing to promote peaceful change”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland letter to MT (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting”) [resolutions on South Africa - apartheid, violence] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO (“South Africa at CHOGM”) [Tanzanian views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Masire letter to MT (Commonwealth strategy on apartheid) [South African punitive measures against Botswana] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s message”) [President Kaunda views on apartheid and sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Treasury minute to No.10 (“PWLB Lending to Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (birthday message) [hopes their understanding on priority problems will remain, needs political wisdom and goodwill] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter for MT (disarmament: the new Soviet initiatives) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (maintain usual diplomatic channels) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (Commonwealth strategy on apartheid) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 13 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Young PS ("Deregulation, City Action Teams and Tourism") [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Rifkind (European Regional Development Fund: non-quota measures) [line to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; EC policy towards Japan; EC en largement/trade; Internal Market Council, 7 Oct; 1986 EC draft Budget/UK VAT abatement; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: wording of Agreement; joint press release and presentation; communique; Ulster Defence Regiment] [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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