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PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [impossible to accept offer to use Air Europe aircraft for visit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus: Possible Meeting with President Vassiliou") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 131 to FCO (1812Z) ("Carlucci/Yazov meeting: briefing of NAC by Lehman") [report] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan") [Soviets threatening to pull out without UN agreement on post-Soviet government - "angered by what they characterise as Pakistan's delaying tactics"; Powell assures MT that British views have been conveyed to Pakistan] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor and Governor of the Bank of England Friday 25 March") [lunch arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, management of economy, Budget, industry, South Africa) [speculation over interest rates, comment on tax cuts] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Gray minute for MT ("Community Care: Handling of the Griffiths Report") [add Policy Unit to official group; MT agrees] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("National Non Domestic Rates: Operation of the Pool") [perception of local authorities and businesses] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Care: Handling of the Griffiths Report") [consideration by Ministers] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Rifkind PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("NHS Review") [Scottish membership of the Review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Longer Term Options for the NHS") [five broad approaches] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Djuranovic") ["Yugoslavia has got itself into a frightful mess"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO briefing for MT ("Yugoslavia: Visit by Mr Djuranovic") [Yugoslav internal, economy and debt, EC/Yugoslavia, bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Papers on Housing Finance and Local Authority capital control system") [MT: "I feel that surplus funds should be capable of being spent to bring schools up to standard... and help the old folk"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Turkey: Programme") [MT decision to vary programme so as to visit Commonwealth War and Florence Nightingale Cemeteries, at DT's suggestion] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Perestroika and Western Policy) [analysis] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute for Addison ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Speech at Mayor of Istanbul's Lunch") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [MT choices between proposed menus on VC10 flights] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO briefing for No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [interview with Turkish television] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 143 to FCO (1620Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Programme") [Turkish comments on programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Turkish State Visit") [suggests meeting with Evren before lunch] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Education Reform Bill: Religious Education (RE)") [implications for teaching of Christianity, and RE in non-church schools] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ulster comment, MT's conference speech, domestic politics, Budget, education) [King to give statement on IRA killing of two soldiers at funeral] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: MT letter to Sir Peter Smithers (the Thyssen Collection) [MT excited by prospect of UK acquisition, and keen to prevent another 'missed opportunity'] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Gray minute for MT ("NHS Review Meeting") [Moore wishes to state his personal views on the way forward, Gray trying to dissuade; Treasury ministers not invited to Chequers seminar] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Launch of new litter initiative") [picking up rubbish in St James's Park] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ingham briefing for MT ("Litter - press conference") [no point in a litter initiative which doesn't focus attention on the individual's role in cutting down litter; press "very cynical" about it] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit: Possible Topics for Informal Discussion") [health care, criminal justice] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("National Non Domestic Rate Transition") [supplementary poundage] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("NHS Review Papers") [the patient as buyer] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Wicks minute to Rifkind PS ("NHS Review") [role of Scottish ministers in review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute for MT ("Interview with Turkish Television") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Programme") [finding time to visit Scutari] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Mr Thatcher's Programme") [seeks approval; Powell gives it] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of President Vassiliou of Cyprus") [final arrangements] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [use of Polish goverment's desire to drop Gdansk visit from itinerary as a negotiating point] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Welfare: Hamilton record of conversation (Health and Social Services backbench committee meeting) [withdrawal of housing benefit; Portillo argued that "taxpayers with no capital should not be subsidising other people with significant sums of capital"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Northern Ireland, unions, industry, Budget, education, litter) [media restiveness over King's statement on IRA killing of two soldiers at funeral] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with Turkish Television") [to cover: bilateral relations, Turkey's application to join the EC, NATO, East/West relations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Moore-Major-Newton-Griffiths-Wilson-Monger-O'Sullivan) [4th meeting of NHS review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Powell minute for MT ("Visit of the President of the Federal Executive Committee of Yugoslavia") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("DOE/LA1 end year flexibility") [proposals] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa on 22 June") [possible programme; official not working visit] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa on 22 June") [Mulroney's Chief of Staff's ideas of possible programme for MT] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram 102 to FCO (0800Z) ("Cyprus: Mrs Thatcher's Visit to Ankara") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 95 to FCO (0925Z) ("Cyprus Problem: Vassiliou's Approach") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("US/Soviet Summit") [dates for meeting with Reagan and visit to Poland] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Peter Brooke ("E(EP) meeting on 17 March: abolition of ILEA - financial implications") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 24 March") [the markets; police pay] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, litter, Budget) [release of film of lynching of soldiers in Northern Ireland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Moore ("Community Care: Sir Roy Griffiths' Report") [arrangements for discussing recommendations] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Ridley PS minute to Paul Gray (DHSS group) [marinal rate of income tax] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Professor Patrick Minford letter to MT (NHS Review) [possible reform programme] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Chequers Seminar on Health: 27 March") [final guestlist and plans] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Member of the Yugoslav Presidency) [Yugoslav economy, UK-Yugoslav economic cooperation, British claims, EC/Yugoslavia] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(LF): 24 March") [many complex agenda items] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major minute to MT ("A New Planning Total") ["The attached paper discusses the case for making the change"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit to Australia") [programme issues to settle] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: DTI letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Speech at Lunch at Istanbul") [minor changes suggested] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Wreaths") [two British war cemeteries at Scutari, Crimean and WW1] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Speeches") [drafting changes, including new paragraph on the Middle East] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram 172 to FCO (0920Z) ("Cyprus: Vassiliou's Visit to London") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 771 to FCO (0410Z) ("Shevardnadze's Visit to Washington: 23-25 March") [Shultz, Shevardnadze: record of conversations] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("CSCE: London Information Forum") [advice on response to Howe proposal that UK host CSCE forum in spring 1989, and that MT delivers opening speech] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Angela Rumbold) [the place of Christianity in religious education] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Tom King ("Educational reform in Northern Ireland") [potential scope for Opposition to exploit King & Baker's differences over proposals in Bill] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, return of soldiers, Ireland, domestic politics) [release of Northern Ireland funeral coverage] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Scottish Office briefing (MT's visit to Inverclyde) [programme for the visit, Rifkind due to launch "New Life for Urban Scotland" policy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Treasury conversation record (Paris Club discussions) [debt of the poorest countries] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Attachment of Benefit") [defaulters should be treated alike] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore minute to MT ("The NHS Review: Seminar with Regional Health Authority Chairmen") [funding, cooperation with private sectors, internal markets] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Draft consultation paper on local authority capital control system") [sensitivities in regard to timing of publication, given wider context of ongoing policy discussions on housing] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Toronto and Ottawa") [travel arrangements; MT opts to leave earlier and avoid helicopter] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Terms for Broadcasting Records: MMC Reference") [collective licensing, rights to broadcast sound recordings] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("MISC 128") [MT note: "I really want some independent advice from some people who know about T.V."] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Harland Simon Group CEO letter for Powell (MT's visit to Turkey: trade opportunities) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Turkey: Interview with BBC World Service") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey 6-8 April 1988: Communications") [security arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Turkey: Speech at Turkish Government Dinner") [FCO toning down draft on Turkish expectations of EC membership; CDP urges a more upbeat but still non-committal formula] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Chairman of the British Council letter to MT ("The British Council in Turkey") ["a good story of promoting Britain's commercial interests on the back of cultural relations work"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Opting out in Scotland") [involvement of parents in the management of schools] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") ["The Polish regime is morally, politically and financially bankrupt. We could make a good public case for our insistence on inclusion of [visit to Gdansk shipyward workers' memorial"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party, Ireland, NHS, education) [challenge to Kinnock's leadership] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Charles Powell minute ("Visit to Turkey: Interview with BBC World Service") [BBC likely to ask about human rights in Turkey; wider issues include Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Arab-Israel conflict, US/USSR summit] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) ["Exchange Rate Policy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Chequers Meeting on the National Health Service") ["Nothing is ruled out (except requests for more cash)"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray (draft speech to Adam Smith Institute) [reasons for the NHS Review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Hurd ("Local elections, 5 May 1987") ["timing of major announcements"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa") [Mulroney "particularly keen" for MT to give speech to Canadian parliament "dealing with fundamentals"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 143 to FCO (0445Z) ("Afghanistan: the British interest") ["this situation should not pressure us into suporting Pakistan/US in signing a bad agreement... no good reason why the current round of talks needs to be the final one"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Mar 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (Chequers Seminar with Doctors) [seeing patients as consumers] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Visit of the Canadian Prime Minister") [possible dates, arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Turkey") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Sir James Spicer MP letter for Powell ("Visit of Turkish MPs") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Banquet") [guest list for black tie dinner] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Speeches: EC/Turkey") [Howe worries about striking the right note; CDP response] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 817 to FCO (2230Z) ("Shevardnadze's Visit to Washington: Arms Control") [summary of discussions] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker briefing for MT ("Religious education") [meeting with Baroness Cox and Michael Alison MP on need for Christianity to take centre place] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) [postponement owing to Moscow summit and Reagan visit to London] [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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