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PDF 87 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Paris telegram 1260 to FCO (1629Z) ("Gorbachev's Stop-Over in Britain") [French media reactions to his meeting with MT en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
Text 87 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 87 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: Howard Baker letter to Goldman Sachs (US underwriting losses in BP sale) [unclassified]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to President of Senegal (environmental pollution by cadmium: EC Commission proposals) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT ("James Goold") [hopes MT will visit Scotland next year] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["what I regard as the initial priorities in my new role"; Ridley/Clarke demarcation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to Fowler PS ("The Community Charge and Service Personnel") [compensation for local variations in the charge] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 letter to PS DHSS ("The Community Charge and Service Personnel") [MT's dissent from Scott's view] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Howard PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant") ["Mr Howard has today written to MPs for those London Boroughs which have lost... [RSG] because of an error in the 1986/87 Settlement"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Radio Policy") [financing independent stations, licence arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Interview with Soviet Television") ["way ahead on arms control and Anglo-Soviet relations"; lines to take on Gorbachev's UK stopover en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to Heads of Government (1500Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Gorbachev") [lines to take on Gorbachev's UK stopover en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1750 to FCO (1220Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to the UK: Further Soviet Press Coverage") [Soviet reports of hostile US hawks' reaction to MT support for arms limitation] [released Jul 2017]
Text 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS ("Third Report of the Education, Science and Arts Select Committee 1985-86: Achievement in Primary Schools") [MT requests amendment to draft Government response] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley) ["Inner cities"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Local Government Finance Bill: Scottish Provisions") [mitigate effects of extreme increases in rateable value] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("A Banded Community Charge: Proposal Supported by Sir George Young Et Al") [arguments against proposal] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Broadcasting Spectrum Studies") [provision of additional TV services on VHF] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1755 to FCO (0900Z) ("Prime Minister's Interview with Soviet Television, 9 December 1987") [report on Soviet coverage] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2723 to FCO (0030Z) (Washington Summit ) [report] [released Jul 2016]
Text 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (working lunch) [declassified 2000]
Text 87 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan call to Thatcher (reporting Washington Summit [talking points only] [declassified 2000]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan and Blackwell minute for MT ("Taking the initiative with the NHS") [turn the crisis to our advantage and use it to justify urgent structural change] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Wicks minute for MT ("Electricity Privatisation") [outline of Parkinson's proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Fowler PS minute to Ridley PS ("Local Government Finance Bill: Help With Community Charge") [draft announcement] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Archie Hamilton record of conversation (Conservative Backbench Environment Committee) [usual suspects object, but Ridley and Howard's performance "will have stopped the rot going any further"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to David Norgrove ("1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to David Norgrove ("Independent Television Producers") [no case at this stage for government to intervene in negotiations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Independent Television Producers") [negotiations have broken down] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Professor Bialer") [MT agrees to proposed meeting] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2740 to FCO (0540Z) ("Washington Summit: Joint Statement") [arms control] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2742 to FCO (0550Z) ("Washington Summit: Initial Comment") [analysis of outcomes] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2741 to FCO (0545Z) ("Washington Summit: President's Address to the Nation") [summary] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2738 to FCO (0530Z) ("Washington Summit: Final Day") [summary] [released Jul 2016]
Text 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan call to Kohl (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000]
Text 87 Dec 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan call to Mitterrand (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000]
PDF 87 Dec 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Tyrie minute for Paymaster General ("Community Charge: criticisms and political blackspots") [anticipated attacks from Conservative supporters] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Italian PM Goria letter to MT (UK Prime Minister's Meeting with Gorbachev) [congratulates MT on the success of her meeting, imminent to his own meeting with Reagan] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: Griffiths minute for MT (stock market crash) [commends Allan Meltzer article explaining "why Louvre was bad and its relationship to the crash"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: Alan Walters faxed memo to David Norgrove ("Fears of 1929-1933") ["A recession or at least a substantial slowdown in growth is likely next year"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to National Air Traffic Services (message from Mr. Gorbachev) [relayed while over Scotland, en route from Washington to Berlin] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Gorbachev (General Secretary's meeting with the Prime Minister, en route to Washington) [thanks Gorbachev, and congratulates him on success of his talks with Reagan] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 conversation record ("Electricity Privatisation") [MT, Parkinson] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore minute to MT ("The Financial Position of Health Authorities") [need to improve monitoring of services and spending] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Bernard Ingham minute to David Norgrove (more money for the NHS) [presentation of allocation "cannot be divorced from the atmosphere in which we are operating"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: David Norgrove minute to MT ("The Financial Position of Health Authorities") [is it right that the NHS should be given more money] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Powell ("Visit by Member of Yugoslav Federal Presidency") [the Yugoslavs have confirmed the dates] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths briefing for MT ("Radio Policy") [financial contribution to independent stations, national radio licences] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger-Giraud) [bilateral nuclear exchanges, theatre nuclear weapons, SSN visits] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 942 to FCO (1910Z) ("Washington Summit: Soviet Briefing") [] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Raisa Gorbachev (General Secretary's meeting with the Prime Minister, en route to Washington) [thanks her for visiting the Edith Moorhouse Primary School, near the RAF Brize Norton meeting venue] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Ambassador Zamyatin (General Secretary Gorbachev's meeting with the Prime Minister, en route to Washington) [thanks for his contribution to the arrangements] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the Markets; NHS] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan and Blackwell minute for MT ("Timetable for NHS reforms") [wants it to be faster, ahead of election, as with Community Charge] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Parkinson PS ("Black country") ["Urban Development Corporation's... concern over British Coal's opencast coal mining plans"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Franco-German defence co-operation; meetings with Secretary Shultz; France/Iran; Sir David Orr; visit to Nigeria] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Nicholas Scott ("Local Government Finance Bill Help With Community Charge") [possible announcement] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Scott (compensation) [ammunition for critics] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Treasury ("Financial Allocations of Health Authorities") [draft statement by Moore] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: David Willets minute to Nigel Wicks (statistics) [scale of the problem] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Moore-Major) [proposals for increased spending to go ahead] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Michael Darlow letter to MT ("Independent Television Producers") [agreement reached with BBC] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Subscription Television") [worst of all words would be to grant existing channels the right to use subscription] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Specialised Satellite Services") [BSB provision of non-broadcast data services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1775 to FCO (1430Z) ("Washington Summit: The Outcome Seen From Moscow") [analysis] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2758 to FCO (0005Z) ("Washington Summit") [review of US media assessments of the outcomes] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2763 to FCO (0030Z) ("Washington Summit: Regional Issues") [Nicaragua; Afghanistan; Iran/Iraq; Arab/Israel; North Korea; Cambodia; Berlin; Angola] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: US State Dept briefing (“The Falklands”) [arms sales to Argentina] [declassified 2013]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, December 16 at 11:00am”) [MT’s views on Gorbachev’s domestic policies, human rights, arms control] [declassified 2013]
PDF 87 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Foreign policy: Ridgway scope paper for Shultz (visit to London) [“Our views on most major foreign policy questions coincide, but Mrs Thatcher puts a slightly different spin on arms control, dealing with Gorbachev, and the Middle East peace process”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Education, Science and Arts Committee (ESAC) Report on DES expenditure plans") [draft Government response] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Hurd minute to MT ("Safer Cities") [roll-out of the strategy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 (latest developments regarding the South Atlantic Fund) [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Broadcasting Spectrum Studies") [registering interest in UHF frequencies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to Hurd PS ("Independent Television Producers") [government should not intervene in negotiations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office working paper ("Subscription Television") [running a fifth channel] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 (draft get-well message from MT to President Kyprianou) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Tony Newton letter to colleagues ("Dental Examinations and Sight Tests") [improving the standard of primary care services] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("NHS: Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [impact of increase in England on Scottish block equivalent] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to Peter Walker ("NHS: Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [enhancement of Welsh block grant] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to Peter Walker ("NHS: Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [enhancement of Northern Ireland block grant] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 37th (Illness of the Lord President, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Retirement of the Secretary of the Cabinet) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Toronto 19-20 June 1988") [MT has accepted in principle an invitation from Conrad Black] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit: Toronto 19-20 June 1988") [Howe's view of MT's speaking invitations and summit timetable] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Radio Policy") [commercial licences, regulation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Specialised Satellite Services") [liberalisation proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Council of Europe Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy: 9-10 December") [EC draft directive] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter for President Kyprianou (wishing him a speedy recovery) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to the Raoul Wallenberg Committee (Prime Minister's visit to the Soviet Union: the Raoul Wallenberg case) [UK position on making representations about the case] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Economy: US State Dept briefing (“UK - economy at a glance”) [economy, unemployment, monetary policy, trade] [declassified 2013]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Defence: US State Dept briefing (“UK: terrorism”) [seek UK support for US approaches to GDR, Polish, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian governments “to persuade these countries to sever links with or take active measures against terrorist groups”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 87 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: CCO agenda (Brooke-MT meeting) [first meeting with Chairman since his appointment] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Inner Cities") [Robert Armstrong, Brian Hayes, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson: staff issues] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Maxwell) [Maxwell meeting with Chirac, exploring possible expanded programme of youth exchanges] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Action points following diary meeting on Monday 21 December 1987") [Royal College of Physicians, Kennedy Memorial Trust dinner, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (inner cities: Hartley Booth visit to Washington) [video about urban regeneration campaigner] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Chief Executive of Business in the Community (involvement of private sector companies in the community) [invitation to MT to deliver keynote address] [declassified Jul 2016]

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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