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PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Wakeham ("Parliamentary Statement on ADDIS, Cakebread and Leasing") [cover all three topics at once] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Parliamentary Statement on ADDIS, Cakebread and Leasing") [coverage of issues] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: John Wakeham minute to John Moore ("Residential Care: Report of the Wagner Committee") [publication arrangements] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chief Secretary ("A new planning total") [resolving questions with Department of the Environment before consulting other departments] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Cradock record of conversation ("Lunch with the Yugoslav Ambassador") [Yugoslav economy and debt; bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Powell ("Yugoslav Request for a TV Interview with the Prime Minister") ['she is not willing to do it'] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Third Bosphorus Bridge") [press aspects] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [draft agenda "rather more elaborate" than MT is used to, with "a particularly Turko-centric list of subjects"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Programme") [agrees suggested visit to water treatment plant and Land Rover] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKMIS Geneva telegram 149 to FCO (1707Z) ("Afghanistan: Proximity Talks") ["Noorani stresses need for progress on formation of interim government"; details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Bearpark minute ("Communications with the Prime Minister") [changed arrangements to ensure rapid communication with MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, economy, industry, restrictive practices) [IRA deaths in Gibraltar, row with Irish government] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with BBC Radio Northern Ireland") [questions about: MT's political career, women in politics, family life] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Wakeham minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Parliamentary Statement on ADDIS, Cakebread and Leasing") [scope of Local Government Finance Bill] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Wakeham PS ("Parliamentary Statement on ADDIS, Cakebread and Leasing") [amendments to Local Government Finance Bill] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke minute to John Moore ("Review of Community Care") [reservations on role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Chequers Seminar with Doctors on 27 March") [who to invite to Chequers meeting] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [American intention to vote for the Argentine resolution in the UN] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths note to MT (BBC) [Paul Fox to be appointed managing director of BBC TV] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John Wakeham minute to MT ("Concessionary Television Licences") [a matter of potential political sensitivity] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: DTI minute for Powell ("British company wins largest civil contract in Turkey for more than a decade") [press notice] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: DTI minute for Powell ("Meeting between MFT and Azil Nadir 8 March") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to Charles Powell (Gorbachev, Ligachev and perestroika) [analysis] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen Mother's letter, education leak, Ireland, restrictive practices) [dominated by QM's letter about closure of hospital ward and MT's letter to Baker about testing in schools] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 minute to MT (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire Collection: MT meeting with Baron Thyssen] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Sir Hector Laing letter to MT (the Thyssen Collection) [UK bid to acquire Collection: "I am writing to urge you to become personally involved"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (Inner Cities: Cabinet Office Unit) [complaint from Clarke PS] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks (Mexico) [debt proposals, Mexican economy] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Kenneth Baker minute to John Wakeham ("Residential Care: Report of the Wagner Committee") [holding statement on publication] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray ("Sir Roy Griffiths' Report on Community Care") [publication and handling of report] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Chequers Health Seminar: 27 March") [remaining invites] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant") [arrangements for winding up existing system following introduction of community charge; John Major's concerns about legal challenges from local authorities] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 9th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, The Legislative Programme 1988/89) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Money Supply in February: 'First Guess' for M3 and Outturn for M0") [low outturn for M3] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS memo for Paul Gray ("Home Affairs Select Committee: Inquiry into Broadcasting") [frequencies for additional terrestrial channels] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The ITV System: ITN") [issue of stopping a monopoly] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1830Z) ("Panama") (NSPG 0179) [measures to pressurize Noriega into leaving] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Hamilton draft note for MT (Value for Money discussion) ["there is a very strong argument for bringing commercial management into the MoD at a very senior level"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, skiing tragedy, education letter, economy, industry, NHS reforms) [coverage of Prince Charles' skiing accident - said to have been inches from death] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Moore ("Community Charge: Attachment of Benefit") [court procedures] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("National Non Domestic Rates: Operation of the Pool") [independent fund managed by NILO] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("National Non Domestic Rate Transition") [special scheme for small firms] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: MT letter to Denis Pereira Gray (Chequers Health Seminar) [invitation] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley letter to Chief Secretary ("National non-domestic rate transition") [standing committee debate on transition "went fairly well", but may need special help for small businesses] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley letter to John Moore ("Community Charge: attachment of benefit") [mechanisms] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Paper by Yuri Orlov on Gorbachev's reforms) [advice on UK Government response] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKMIS Geneva telegram 171 to FCO (1816Z) ("Afghanistan: Proximity Talks") ["hopeful signs on phasing and interim government. Symmetry will probably require Shultz/Shevardnadze decision"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKMIS Geneva telegram 170 to FCO (1630Z) ("Afghanistan: Proximity Talks") ["Pakistan Acting Foreign Minister clarifies outstanding points including progress towards interim government and symmetry"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: MT letter to Roy Calne (memo on the NHS) ["Clearly we haven't got the right management structure"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 13 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Japanese Proposal for a Meeting of Trade Ministers") ["to meet and candidly exchange their own point of view about world trade-related issues"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Economic Summit: Third Sherpas' Meeting") [stirling, thematic paper, world economy, developing countries, trade] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Rifkind PS ("Opting out in Scotland") [scheme for schools to opt out of local authority control] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, budget, Ireland, NHS, media, industry, politics, local government, Community Charge, education, law & order, EC, NATO, Rudolf Hess) [Tebbit rejects idea this would be Lawson's last budget] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Budget, Ireland, NHS, industry) [Budget overshadowed by 'row' over sterling and exchange rates] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 briefing for MT (the Thyssen Collection) [meeting with Baron Thyssen to discuss UK bid to acquire Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Major minute to MT ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire Collection: "the cost may be very high"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Treasury letter to DHSS ("Central Council speech - 18 March") [Treasury opposing references to the National Health Service in MT's speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Ridley ("LDDC: Docklands Light Railway, eastern extension) [funding] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The Community Charge: Members of Religious Orders") [exemption for salaried orders] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Ridley PS ("The Community Charge: Members of Religious Orders") [treatment of salaried monks and nuns] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Attachment of Benefit") [arrangements for defaults on charges] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [alternatives to a contingency margin] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Norman Fowler minute to John Moore ("Review of Community Care") [proposed role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore letter to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Care: Sir Roy Griffiths' Report") [arrangements for discussing recommendations] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore minute to Peter Walker ("Community Care: Sir Roy Griffiths' Report") [keen to build on initiatives in Wales] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Lawson PS ("Central Council Speech 18 March") [intensifying public concern about the NHS] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit: Toronto/Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa") [travel arrangements; announcement of her intention to stay on after summit and address Canadian Parliament] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Toronto") [MT "making this visit [to Ottawa] as a favour to Mr Mulroney"; for him to suggest how she should spend her time there; announcement of the visit] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Young PS ("The ITV System: ITN") [preventing emergence of a monopoly] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Harry Goodman letter to MT (offers an Air Europe aircraft for her visit to Turkey) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 456 to FCO (1200Z) ("Soviet Union/FRG: Announcement of Visits by Kohl and Gorbachev") ["The degree of advance public notice... [a signal of] the importance currently attached by the Soviet leadership to relations with the FRG] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 392 to FCO (1056Z) ("Afghanistan") ["Fluid situation in Islamabad as decision on Geneva signature approaches"; details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKMIS Geneva telegram 174 to FCO (1116Z) ("Afghanistan: Proximity Talks") ["symmetry will need to solved at the Shultz/Shevardnadze level... problems of a broadbased Government and phasing of withdrawal should be soluble in Geneva... arrival of Resistance delegation could introduce a complicating factor"; details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Budget, NHS, environment, industry) [sterling/exchange rates row, Lawson's authority] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Luce, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza) ["Thyssen Collection": UK bid to acquire Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Rifkind letter to Clarke ('New Life for Urban Scotland') [launch of policy document] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The Community Charge: Members of Religious Orders") [who should benefit from exemption] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Care: Griffiths' Report") [assessing individuals' needs, role of local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 10th (The Budget) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram 91 to FCO (0722Z) ("Vassiliou's Visit to Athens") [would like to visit London to see MT before her visit to Ankara] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 80 to FCO (1100Z) ("Vassiliou's Request for Meeting with Prime Minister") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 399 to FCO (0932Z) ("Afghanistan") [latest Pakistan position on Geneva negotiations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 672 to FCO (0100Z) ("Afghanistan") ["The Administration are standing firm on the need for symmetrical US and Soviet obligations as guarantors"; details] [released Jul 2018]
Text 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1988 Budget (Lawson 5)
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("National Union of Students") [Conservative backbench proposal to give individual students free choice instead of default membership] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP)") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Budget treatment, Budget comment, industry) [Budget well received, political focus now switches to NHS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Thyssen Collection") [UK bid to acquire Collection: Powell/Ridley/Hankes-Drielsma dinner with Baron Thyssen] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [contacts with ANC/UNITA; inward State visits; relations with Chancellor Kohl; IRA/Gibraltar] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge: Attachment of Benefit") [court order option] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray note to Ridley PS ("National Non-Domestic Rates: Operation of the Pool") [use of the Consolidated Fund] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("NHS Review Meeting of Ministers, 22 March 1988") [three categories of health care] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: UKE Belgrade telegram to FCO ("Visit by Member of Yugoslav Presidency") ['we may be able to help by sharpening Yugoslav perceptions about their options'] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("Guidelines for the 1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [baselines, bids and options, running costs] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [cemetery visit; Turkpetrol] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: King PS letter to No.10 (education reform in Northern Ireland) [religious education] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Schools in Scotland") ["Your action over Paisley Grammar has become a standard around which people can rally to the Party in Scotland"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [response to FCO letter listing those to accompany MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Redwood speech draft ("Speech module - budget and economy") ["The dynamism of the British economy is now one of the economic miracles of the world"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham note for MT ("Extract from an interview in Toyo Keizai ... by David Peake, Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Limited") ["A miracle has been performed by Mrs Thatcher and the British people"] [released Jul 2018]

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).

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