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PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Retirement of Prime Minister Tikhonov") [MT declines to send message of congratulation to his successor, Ryzhkov; retirement earlier than expected, confirms Gorbachev is in a commanding position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2712 to FCO (1850Z) ("MSE") [lines to take on UK bid, in advance of MT meeting with Robert McFarlane] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Drugs - Party Conference") [MT agrees to Treasury/DHSS being notified of her concern that their funding dispute be resolved in advance of Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [line to take in talks with Nally: joint courts; European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism; arrangements for signing of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations") [King's first detailed comment on Anglo-Irish agreement since appointment as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; concern that Agreement is 'imbalanced' in favour of Irish] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [comment on King's minute: 'It is a bit of a bombshell...It is in effect a declaration of no confidence in the present negotiating team'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mozambique: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Machel of Mozambique) [internal situation in Mozambique; Anglo-Mozambique relations; South Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("McFarlane: Middle East") [Arab/Israel conflict; additional briefing attached: Iran/Iraq; arms control; South Africa/Namibia; Central America; US arms sales to Argentina] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with US National Security Advisor McFarlane) [Mobile Subscriber Equipment: case for UK firm Plessey's bid (Ptarmigan) over rival French bid for contract to supply combat phones to US army] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Reviews and the Survey") ["I attach as agreed a background note on the position on social security expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey and Social Security") [approach to Cabinet; composition of the Star Chamber; meeting with Fowler to discuss timetable & identify savings; MISC III/Star Chamber handling of social security reviews] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: David Norgrove minute to MT (Joint Department of Employment and DHSS Study of Local Office Networks) [MT agrees to No.10 stipulating that Efficiency Unit should be involved in the study] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Expenditure") [Fowler "trying to escape the tough cuts... We didn't just want structural changes for their own sake; he gets his reforms if the taxpayer saves some money"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Walker minute to MT (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Flesher briefing for MT (“Education Seminar”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury paper (“Green Paper on Personal Taxation”) [draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Grant Aided Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 22 (The Queen’s Speeches on the Prorogration of Parliament and the Opening of Parliament) [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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