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PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("The Third Sherpa Meeting") [proposed change to dates] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Butler PS ("Cabinet 18 February: Chancellor's Paper on Economic Strategy") [historically strong economic performance in 1987] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: DTI minute to No.10 ("Turkey: Prime Minister's Visit - Portals Holdings") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Cradock minute to MT ("Afghanistan") ["whether we should support the Pakistanis in their insistence on agreement on an interim Government... before they sign a withdrawal agreement"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Afghanistan") [Pakistani insistence on agreement on an interim Government before they sign a withdrawal agreement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Dr. Keith Hampson MP ("Grant-maintained schools") [efficacy of proposed parental ballot to approve a school's application for grant-maintained status] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Wicks minute for MT ("Televising the House of Commons") [do not start with State Opening; security aspects - exhibitionists and terrorists] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to bishops (Albert Hall prom) ["we all enjoyed ourselves enormously"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Butler briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy - C(88)3") [Lawson presenting strategy to cabinet; "generally optimistic picture for 1988"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Paul Reichmann letter to MT (Canary Wharf development) ["To the extent that we are able to expedite Canary Wharf, much further development in the Docklands will follow on its heels"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to Clarke PS ("Inner cities") [text of White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Pascal Lamy letter to Nigel Wicks (Japanese proposal for meeting of trade ministers) ["We continue to have serious reservations about these proposals"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: James Taylor to Nigel Wicks (dinner meeting) [issues for discussion paper] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Lawson memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 3 (Economic Strategy) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor - 18 February") [handling of Cabinet discussions; Merchant shipping; Britoil Golden share; Budget details] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("ITN interview") [likely topics: East/West relations, NHS, the economy, industrial relations, Anglo-Irish relations, televising the Commons] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Civil service: MT to Neil Kinnock (Efficiency Unit report) [much of press reporting has been inaccurate] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Bishop Graham Leonard (thanks) [for sending copy of the Declaration of Unity, Witness and Mission] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: MT to Tim Brinton (televising the Commons) [the decision "is causing many people to consider the consequences and all kinds of issues are now being discussed"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT visit to NATO - Carrington, Alexander lunch with General Galvin) [MT "rather disheartened by her visit and by the likely difficulties of getting an adequately robust declaration" at future Summit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Lord Young ("English estates: managed workspace in the inner cities") ["I still have considerable reservations over the particular mechanisms you have proposed for engaging the private sector in the property development aspect of this"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Howe visit to USSR; Afghanistan; EC; NATO; Southern Africa] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley to Kenneth Baker ("Students and the Community Charge") [registration arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore minute to MT ("Sir Roy Griffiths' Review of Community Care") ["he has reached some wrong conclusions"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Specialised Satellite Services") [licencing liberalisation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute for Chairman of Portals Holdings (The company's activities in Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit by French Minister of Defence") [MT thinks a meeting would lead to speculation about nuclear cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Powell minute to FCO ("Cyprus Presidential Election: 14/21 February 1988") [MT's draft message to the victor] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute for Powell ("Cypriot Presidential Election: 14/21 February 1988") [MT's draft message to the winner] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Afghanistan": Pakistani insistence on agreement on an interim Government before they sign a withdrawal agreement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 390 to FCO (2340Z) (Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan) [report on visit of Pakistan Minister of State to Washington to coordinate US/Pakistan positions] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 335 to FCO (1130Z) ("Central Committee Plenum") [summary of Ligachev speech critiquing 1984 reforms of Soviet education system] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Baker") [school closures in Conservative M.P. constituency of Ilkeston, Derbyshire] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Northern Ireland, Ford strike, industry) [media criticism of Northern Ireland policy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Geoffrey Littler (draft minute) [meeting of Sherpas: French and US elections, world economy, macro-economic issues, political] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan and Peter Stredder minute to MT ("The Griffiths' Report on Community Care") [attractive features and drawbacks] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT (NHS reform) [systems of finance] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray ("NHS Review") [reading list for Ministerial group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Moore PS ("NHS Review") [work programme for Ministerial group, costing estimates] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 6th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Strategy) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Chairman of Portals Holdings minute for Powell (The company's activities in Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 47 to FCO (0855Z) ("Presidential Election") [odds on Vassiliou] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Central Committee Plenum") [forwards Assessments Staff analysis of Soviet leadership changes] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 349 to FCO (1445Z) ("Central Committee Plenum: Comment") [Gorbachev speech: glasnost/perestroika, political & economic reform, arms control; Ligachev speech; leadership changes] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (1130Z) (Reagan-Chancellor Kohl) [INF Treaty and NATO; bilateral relations; EC Single Market; commitment to free trade; nuclear arms control; economic issues] [declassified Nov 1999]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker) ["Mathematics curriculum working party"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("U.S. visit - schools: lessons for the UK") [findings from Professor Griffiths' visit] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("National curriculum: Mathematics curriculum working party") ["The real danger we face is that the national curriculum which we will introduce will not raise standards but enshrine the shibboleths of a failed system."] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker) ["Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT interview on NHS, Budget, civil service reform) [No more cash for NHS in Budget] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with the Today newspaper") [questions about: hopes for the 21st century, socialism, opposition, health service, Lords opposition, women in politics] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Major ("LDDC: Docklands Light Railway, eastern extension") [funding arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") ['Action for Cities' media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (tackling litter: press conference for new initiative) [Ridley minute and invitation to MT to attend; No.10 advises against; MT - "I should like to go"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, South African Ambassador Killen) [MT took "delivery of President Botha's reply to her recent message... She then said that she wanted to be frank... Apartheid was a basic grievance and it must go... she was disappointed by [Botha's] reply"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit preparation meeting") [French and US elections, world economy, macro-economic issues] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Meeting of Sherpas") [MT note: issue of "trade imbalances is the most important single thing"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review: Meeting on 8 February") [papers for Ministerial group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) NHS: John O'Sullivan notes ("Notes on the NHS Review") [early days yet, moving towards dedicated health tax with contracting out or competitive local health funds; 12 papers, 103pp] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Christopher Roberts ("Japanese proposal for an informal meeting of trade ministers") ["A meeting of the Seven Trade Ministers does risk being seen as some kind of extension of the G7 and Economic Summit machinery"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("External Television Broadcasting") [rejection of BBC's proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 48 to FCO (0830Z) ("Presidential Election") [Vassiliou wins] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [Howe's Soviet withdrawal & interim government and Western aid; note by David Hart] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Royal Commission of Environmental Pollution minute to No.10 ("The Royal Commission's Twelfth Report") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Land Rover strike, industry, domestic politics, NHS) [Ebullient report from CBI on state of economy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Clarke) ["Action for Cities": review of draft document for media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Ridley ("UDCs - Merseyside and the Lower Don Valley") [feasibility study on extension of proposed areas] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Clarke ("Action for Cities") [comments on draft document in advance of media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Fowler letter to Clarke ("Inner Cities information work") [secondment of press officer] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit") [East-West relations expected to be the major political issue, Middle East might also feature] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit: Science") [international co-operation] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to DTI ("GATT: Agriculture: MTR") ["The main pressure for agriculture reform in the Uruguay Round as a whole will no doubt continue to come from the US"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Foreign Affairs Council; NATO summit; relations with USSR; Afghanistan; Waldheim; visit to Morocco] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: NUCAA Western Provincial Area letter to MT (health authorities) [shortage of funds due to years of mismanagement] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Moore PS ("Sir Roy Griffiths' Review of Community Care") [difficulties in proposed role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Roy Griffiths' Report on Community Care") [proposed role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nigel Lawson ("ITV Levy for Contract Extension Period") [options for changing levy base] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to MT ("The ITV System: ITN") [inclusion of monopoly reference] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (World TV) [timing of announcement] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Cradock minute for Powell ("Cyprus: The Elections") [implications of Vassiliou's victory] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 365 to FCO (1510Z) ("Shultz's Visit to Moscow, 21-23 February") [arms control; nuclear testing; Afghanistan] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [Budget package; the markets; MT concerned about import figures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Hamilton minute for MT (situation in Afghanistan) [Abdul Haq "says an agreement has been reached on the formation of an interim government to replace the communist regime"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Gaisman to Chief Whips' Office (Chequers lunch for whips) [arrangements] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, air safety, Land Rover, industry, media, NHS) [criticism of Paul Channon] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting on how to improve the presentation of the Conservative message and "implementation of radical policies which will break up the 'dependency culture'" which limits Conservative support] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Secretary of State for Energy minute for Margaret Thatcher ("Electricity Privatisation") [draft statement and White Paper ] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry to Nigel Wicks (second Sherpas meeting) [programme of discussions] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Briefing for Second Sherpas' Meeting") [Summit organisation, world economy, debt, trade and agriculture, financial market mechanisms] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("Meeting of Summit Sherpas in Quebec - 28/29 February") [MT "believes that the most important single task for the Summit is to secure further progress in the reduction of trade imbalances"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("Local Government Bill: disabled employment") [response to House of Lords defeat of proposed amendment] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chief Secretary's Speech to the PEWP Debate") [changes to NHS Review section] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("MISC 128: Concessionary Television Licences") [licences for pensioners and disabled people] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 289 to FCO (0906Z) ("Afghanista[n]: Alliance proposals for Interim Government") [details; advice on UK response] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Hurd (Education Reform Bill) [Baker opposed to proposed statutory power for Commission for Racial Equality to issue code of practice on discrimination & equality in education] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Peter Rost M.P. ("Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire") [apology and explanation for circumstances leading to school closures] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, BBC, Budget, NHS) [Anglo-Irish meeting amidst a sea of troubles] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("NATO Summit: The Continuing Soviet Build-Up") ["Despite smooth Soviet words, the JIC sees no evidence ... that there has been any lessening of the threat"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Fowler PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Action for Cities document") [review of draft document for media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [comments on proposed draft reply] [declassified Nov 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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