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PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to Private Secretaries (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT “attaches great importance to [its] success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Sex Discrimination and Shops Bills”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to Brittan (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Public Bodies 1985”) [key statistics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the National Consumer Council letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [informal briefing for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ridley letter to Brittan ("Arthur Andersen and Co") [LRT contract not to be renewed in light of Andersen's involvement in failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd; other firms to be invited to tender] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87 Presentation of the Joint Boards' Precepts") ["One of the key points we must get across is the irresponsible way the metropolitan county councils have used balances and financial reserves to keep their precepts down in 1985/86, and hence to conceal the true costs of their policies from the ratepayers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Defence ("Broad-beamed warship design") [MT wants Heseltine to give the matter his personal attention] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future Legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["You will see that we are bidding for only two major programme Bills in 1986/87... Copyright... [and] Consumer Goods and Services..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Wicks minute for MT (bilaterals with cabinet colleagues) [proposed regular one-on-one meetings with selected colleagues; MT agrees] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Fisheries") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [FCO press statement; UK message to Mugabe; S.African/Zimbabwean military liaison over latest incident] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Land Mine attack in South Africa") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Michael Heseltine ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [PIRA attempts to intimidate building contractors who carry out work for security forces] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Channel Fixed Link: Commercially Sensitive Aspects of the Assessment") [draft PQ on Government's position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chief Secretary minute for MT (Westland) [“the European solution would mean less competition and therefore increased costs”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Sir John Cuckney (reply to his letter of 13 Dec) [refers him to Brittan statement 16 December] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (‘Fraud’) [ministerial meeting tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Roskill Report’) [summary & comment] [released 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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