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Video 73 Mar 5 Mo Multimedia Key Archive (BBC) TV Interview for BBC1 Val meets the VIPs (children's tv interview) [MT says she is too inexperienced to be Prime Minister]
PDF 73 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Conservative Party: State Department record of MT conversation (lunch at the Connaught) [MT's frank assessment of her political colleagues] [declassified 1998]
PDF 74 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris record of conversation (visit from Keith Joseph) [plans "a new 'crusade' for private enterprise", acknowledging 'guilt' for Heath Government failings]
PDF 75 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative leadership election: MT’s notes on handling Ted Heath
PDF 75 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (fall of Saigon) ["a dark day ... somehow the shadows seem to have lengthened"] [released 2003]
Video 76 Jan 31 Sa Multimedia Major Margaret Thatcher Speech to Finchley Conservatives (admits to being an "Iron Lady") [film extract]
PDF 76 Nov 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Economy: Kissinger conversation with US Treasury officials (Helmut Schmidt’s low opinion of MT) [“a bitch ... tough ... lacks scope & cannot lead”] [declassified 1999]
PDF 77 Mar 29 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) MT: Hailsham diary (discussion with Peter Carrington) [serious doubts about MT & Keith Joseph]
PDF 77 Aug 11 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Alcon Copisarow (advisers) [“I shall have to take most of the major decisions myself”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 31 Sa Declassified documents Key Henderson (Sir Nicholas) Economy: The Henderson Despatch (British decline, causes & consequences) [Nicko Henderson's valedictory despatch as Ambassador to Paris] [leaked 1979; declassified 2006]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...")
Text 79 May 4 Fr Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis's prayer) [film]
PDF 79 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Carrington regards success in constitutional conference as "virtually inconceivable"] [declassified 2009]
Audio 79 Nov 21 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Mr Anthony Blunt] [audio]
Video 80 Oct 10 Fr Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Party Conference (‘the lady’s not for turning’) [film extract 1]
Audio 80 Dec 2 Tu Multimedia Key Nicholas Ridley HC: Statement by Nicholas Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [minister savaged over leaseback] [audio]
PDF 81 Jan 4 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Note for the Record") ["Rupert Murdoch Lunch"] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jan 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (first meetings with MT as economic adviser) ["What should she do about Geoffrey? Who could she promote. No one"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Budget: MT notes (Budget Cabinet) [comments by individual ministers] [released 2013]
Text 81 Mar 11 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Guardian Young Businessman of the Year Award (defence of the budget)
PDF 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Woodfield-Unknown) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) MT: Hoskyns, Wolfson and Millar memo for MT ("Your Political Survival") ["The Blockbuster" memo - "Your own management competence, like that of most of your colleagues, is almost non-existent ... Your own Leadership style is wrong"] [released 2016]
PDF 81 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires letter to Fearn ("Falkland Islands Strategy") ["In effect, as I understand it, the decision is to have no strategy at all beyond a general Micawberism"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Chief Whip minute to MT ("The Prime Minister") ["we are facing a very serious situation which we must discuss"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0034) [Reagan calls European leaders “chicken littles … let our Allies know ... we have long memories”] [declassified Oct 2004]
PDF 82 Mar 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.4"M"/82 (c2215Z) (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 28 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of phone conversation (2215Z) (MT, Carrington) ["an open challenge on sovereignty"] [declassified 2024]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: GCHQ intercept of Argentine signal ("Argentine submarine force commander gives instructions relating to possible submarine threat, and also to reconnaissance mission") ["reconnaissance of the beach and/or disembarkation [word garbled]"] [declassified May 2023]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: SIS UKE Buenos Aires signal to GCHQ (1640Z) (decrypted Argentine signal) [British Naval Attaché comments: "This looks serious and suggests a recce of an invasion beach on the West of East Falkland"] [declassified May 2023]
Text 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (imminent Argentine invasion) [Reagan calls Galtieri; writes result to MT]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [transcript of Gow's notes] [released 2013]
Video 82 Apr 5 Mo Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC (1640Z) (Falklands) [film]
Video 82 Apr 25 Su Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks on the recapture of South Georgia ("Rejoice") [film]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1145Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano - Nott's copy] [top copy; this copy declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [MT wants UN Secretary-General to visit London; MT: "it is going to be the most awful waste of young life if we really have to go and take those islands"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 30 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: GCHQ intercept of Argentine signal (0531Z) ("Falkland Islands Dispute: Commander Falklands Group laments the inferiority of Argentine forces") [battle for Darwin/Goose Green assessed; British possess absolute air superiority and control of the sea, "unsurpassable conditions to extend the occupation of the islands"] [declassified May 2023]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2200Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened" - top copy] [declassified 2012]
Audio 82 Jun 4 Fr Multimedia Minor Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher Conversation during press shoot (c1400Z?) (US civil war; boom microphones; the Falklands) [audio]
PDF 82 Jun 8 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) No.10 Visitors' Book: Ronald and Nancy Reagan signatures (visiting No.10 first time as President and First Lady) [released Dec 2024]
Audio 82 Jun 14 Mo Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: (2115Z) [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio]
PDF 82 Jun 17 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MOD cartoon (Lewin gift to MT) [14,000 Argentine POWs queuing for the NAAFI] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 15 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) [Pym & MT at odds over her intention to have a dedicated adviser on foreign, defence & intelligence matters, based in No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 83 Jan 16 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World ("Victorian Values")
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [personal account of her conduct of the war, handwritten text interleaved with transcript] [released 2015]
Audio 83 Apr 5 Tu Multimedia Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [podcast - episode 1] [released 2015]
Video 83 Jun 10 Fr Multimedia Major Archive (Reagan Library) US: White House film (Reagan telephone call to MT) [congratulations on landslide] [unclassified]
Audio 83 Oct 26 We Multimedia Key Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: Reagan phone call to MT (throwing his hat in the door) [audio] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [East-West relations, US foreign policy, Middle East, Grenada, Allied cooperation, arms supplies for Argentina] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 2 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT record of conversation (MT-President Botha) [presses on Mandela release: "Transkei takes responsibility"] [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 are 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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