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PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Heseltine minute to Howe ("Customs Relief on Imports of Defence Equipment") [EC threat to waiver of duty; FRG no longer an ally in resistance to threat] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Industry”) [issues requiring consideration: power station stocks and endurance, pit closures and redundancies, open cast mining, structure of the coal industry, NCB Executive] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“1985 CAP Price Fixing”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Chancellor Kohl’s visit to Chequers: 18 May”) [arrangements and agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 85”) [2.5 percent fall in Conservative support] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT (“Information Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) report on cable systems: a reassessment”) [comments on report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Call on the Prime Minister by Mrs Geraldine Ferraro”) [Vice-Presidential candidate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“VAT Tribunals: transfer of responsibilities”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lawson minute to George Younger (“Proposed Rate Relief (Temporary Provisions) (Scotland) Bill 1985”) [his comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Funding Meeting”) [public expenditure figures for 1984-1985] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 27 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Social Security Reviews: Handling") [pre-meeting with Lawson & Fowler: pensions; agenda for Cabinet meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Kohl message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) [hopes summit will adopt a declaration on anniversary of the end of WWII "which recalls the terrible suffering of the war and underscores our common position on the safeguarding of peace, freedom and justice"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Ronald Reagan (Bonn Economic Summit) [hopes to "work very closely together" on setting dates for new GATT round, terrorism, strategic defence initiative] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Peter Rees minute to MT (“Non-Domestic Revaluation: Privatisation;”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 28 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of the Canadian Prime Minister") [objectives to consolidate relationship with Mulroney, discuss Bonn Summit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Apr 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Ershad message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) [difficulties facing developing economies] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Nicholson briefing for MT ("EUREKA") [proposal for a new European programme of coordinated research "is ill-thought out, in that whilst it identifies the right problem, the diagnosis is wrong"; may arise in margins of summit] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Department of Employment ("Value for Money In Government") [invites Secretary of State to seminar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foreign Secretary-Brittan) ["Hong Kong: Joint Liaison Group"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Large Scale Household Survey") [Jenkin postpones survey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Sikhs") [Chauhan, passports] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Brittan PS ("Sikh Extremists: Damage to Indo-British Relations") [allegations that Chauhan is inciting violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Chauhan") [Law Officers should study papers further] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 551 to FCO (0630Z) ("Westlands") [Raison's talk with Gandhi] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Aid Trade Provision for China") [extension] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("40th Anniversary of VE Day: Reception at the Soviet Embassy on 7 May") [attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 letter to BBC ("Film on the 250th Anniversary of No.10") [comments on proposed schedule of filming] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit by the Taoiseach's to Northern Ireland") [such visits have been rare in the past] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 231 to FCO (0900Z) ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [press reports on new committee, prospects for a final agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 237 to FCO (1745Z) ("The Taoiseach's Visit to Londonderry") [extracts from FitzGerald speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("British Aerospace") [preparations for sale of remaining Government shareholding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Howe minute to Ridley ("Laker and UK/US Aviation") [thoughts on how to improve relations with US] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations: "the longer-term problem in Scotland is different in some important respects"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir John Sainsbury and members of his group) ["The Planning System": Department of Environment's proposals for planning reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (role of entrepreneurs in job creation) [thanks for forwarding paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Social Security Review") [State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme: options] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Fowler, Rees, Whitelaw, Wakeham, Tony Newton, John Redwood, David Willetts) ["Social Security Reviews: Pensions"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Economic Declaration") [MT: "I think it is a mistake to group the European countries - indeed it is somewhat confrontational"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Declaration") [amendments to passages on end of WWII to suit Japanese and French, no reference to 'vanquished'; division of Korea; Geneva talks] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Cabinet Office ("Bonn Economic Summit: Speaking Note On Economic Issues") [MT wants the note rewording with an eye to its reaching the press; wants more on deregulation, US and Japanese restrictive practices] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Cabinet Office ("Economic Summit") [MT requests briefings on: Mitterrand ideas for international monetary system, Japanese subsidy to Bosporus bridge, US restrictive practices re: trans-Alaska pipeline] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1422 to FCO (1530Z) ("[Don] Regan's Washington Post Interview: Interest Rates, US Deficit and Monetary Reform Meeting") [quotes from interview relevant to Bonn summit; international monetary conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1429 to FCO (2243Z) ("Secretary Baker's Press Interview on the Bonn Economic Summit") ["all of our economies face structural rigidities which hinder job creation and sustained growth"; no linkage between monetary conference and new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: French approach") [Mitterrand's views on monetary reform and GATT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Santiago telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit") [Cartenga Group request, Latin American debt] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Robert Armstrong-French Ambassador) [Bonn G7 - French expectations on new GATT round, the environment, political declarations, SDI] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Ibbs minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Capital Expenditure Contracts") [Efficiency Unit study] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (“Meeting between the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Presidency and the Commission: Brussels, 29 April 1985 ) [agriculture price fixing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling (“CAP Price Fixing 1985”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Peter Rees minute for Paul Channon (“Poland Rescheduling”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Neil Ward letter to Butler (sponsor of Harland Wolff refrigerated ships) [“of appropriate weight for the Prime Minister”] [declassified December 2014]
Text 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mulroney-Howe and others) [Canadian politics and economy, Bonn summit, Canada-US relations, defence] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 819 to FCO (1045Z) (Hong Kong Executive Council) [composition of Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Nicholas Ridley minute to Geoffrey Howe (visit to India) [aid programme, Sikh question, Indian manufacturing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("VE Day: Representation in Moscow") [proposals; notice of French/US intentions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Tebbit, Heseltine, Rees) ["European Fighter Aircraft"; plus closer circulation record on the politics of the decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 Press Office minute to Robin Butler ("BBC filming of No.10") [BBC documentary to mark 250th annversary of PM's residence: reception & Dinner for Prime Minister Mulroney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("The Taoiseach's Visit to Londonderry") [tone of FitzGerald's speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Special Sale of Asserts 1985-86: Britoil") [sale of Government's residual share: announcement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (MISC 108: support for Local Enterprise Agencies) [announcement, cost, & future savings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Teachers") [pay negotiations/performance standards; action against selective strikes; difference between Younger and Keith Joseph priorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Biffen (UK contribution to EC Budget) [means of securing Parliament's agreement to Own Resources Decision for abatement of net UK contribution, and to Inter-Governmental Agreement to finance EC 1985 Budget overrun] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Howe PS ("Development of the EC") [Tebbit's thoughts on Howe minute of 15 April: need for pragmatic UK proposals; relations with European Parliament/political cooperation; decision-taking] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Political Cooperation") [text of draft Agreement approved by Attorney General] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Irish press statement (UK/Irish relations) [statement on MT, FitzGerald conversation at European Council meeting, 30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Europe: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("CAP Price Fixing: Run up to Agriculture Council starting on 2 May") [European Commission "is reported to have agreed that no extra funds will be available for a CAP prices settlement"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7/Europe: Jopling PS to Charles Powell ("1985 CAP Price Fixing: German Attitude") ["All member states have to compromise at the price fixing so that an overall solution can be found"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Europe: Michael Jopling minute to MT ("1985 CAP Price Fixing") ["it is important that we leave [the Germans] in no doubt that the position they are taking up is not tolerable"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to No.10 ("Economic Summit") [briefs on French currency ideas, Second Bosphorus Bridge] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Channon PS minute to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit") [settlement of dispute between the owners of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the State of Alaska] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Soviet Air Space Reservations in the Berlin Air Corridors") [agreed approach with the Americans and French] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7/Central America: UKE Washington telegram 1441 to FCO (2322Z) ("US/Central America: Economic Sanctions Against Nicaragua") ["likely to include bans on US imports from and exports to Nicaragua and suspension of air landing rights and port access"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Nicholson letter to MT ("EUREKA") [proposal for a new European programme of coordinated research "is ill-thought out, in that whilst it identifies the right problem, the diagnosis is wrong"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Social Security reviews - Pensions; Money Figures; Local Government Finance, Lawson favours "cautious line" at Scottish conference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Middleton minute to John Boreham ("Briefing on Monthly PSBR Press Notice") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (“Westland Helicopters”) [company difficulties; Bristow bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit minute for MT (“Westland Helicopters”) [less sanguine than Heseltine] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling minute to MT (“1985 CAP price fixing”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Paul Channon minute for Peter Rees (“Poland - Refinancing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Addison note to Larne Harbour Ltd (new passenger terminal) [MT will consider attending opening ceremony] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Alison letter to David Price (Harland and Wolff ships) [MT will consider attending launch ceremony] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Walker memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 10 (Gas Industry Privatisation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 11 (Legislative Programme 1985-86: Consequences of the Inclusion of a Gas Bill) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sport: Jenkin PS letter to Young PS (Eurodome stadium) [“keen to ensure that viable private sector schemes for Docklands are encouraged”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sport: Jenkin PS minute to No.10 (Eurodome stadium) [proposals “do not appear to have yet been worked up in sufficient detail to attract planning permission”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (“Review of early retirement arrangements”) [implementing recommendations on policy reform] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of early retirement arrangements”) [synopsis of main proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Rees letter to Brittan (“Public Order White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (obstacles to trust) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Your Meeting with George Younger and others on Wednesday 1st May at 6 pm to Discuss Scottish Rates”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Rates in Scotland”) [meeting with George Younger] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Leyland Bus: Bangkok") [Leyland bid for Thai contract; Belgium prepared to breach OECD "no-aid" rules to win contract; need for British response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 434 to UKE Moscow (1630Z) ("40th Anniversary: Attendance at Soviet Commemoration") [text of MT's message of goodwill to Gorbachev, published - with additional handwritten comment - on 7 May] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 note for the file ("VE Day Service at Westminster Abbey") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 letter to Leon Brittan PS (meeting on 9 May to discuss Drug Misuse) [record of conversation on 23 April circulated] [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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