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PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB)") [report on discussions with US] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 692 to FCO (1028Z) ("The Death of President Brezhnev: the Soviet Leadership") [process for electing successor; public reaction] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 82 Nov 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Lord Thomas letter to MT (election of Andropov) [reactions of three experts on Soviet Union] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 83 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Central Committe Plenum and Supreme Soviet Session -14-16 June") [report on Andropov's election; personnel changes; idealogy; relations with 'socialist' countries; relations with the West] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 83 Jul 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 letter to invitees (Foreign Affairs and Defence: Strategy meeting at Chequers) [invitation to group of academic experts to discuss matters relating to Soviet Union and Eastern Europe] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Aug 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT (Foreign Affairs meetings) [background papers by Foreign Office] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversations (morning seminar: MT, academic experts, Howe, Heseltine, Rifkind, Bramall, Acland, Bullard, Mackintosh, Parsons; followed by afternoon meeting: MT, Howe, Heseltin, Rifkind, Bramall, Acland, Bulllard, Mackintosh, Parsons) ["Policy on East/West relations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
Text 83 Sep 8 Th Press Key Thatcher memoirs Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract]
PDF 83 Sep 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (Global Strategic Perspective from Moscow) [paper assessing probably Soviet policies under new leadership of Andropov] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Canada") [report on MT's visit: "an immense success"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Trudeau, Fowler) [East/West relations; Trudeau proposal for conference of the nuclear powers ] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc) [tête-à-tête: East/West, non-alignment, arms race, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia's economy & copies of speeches made at lunch] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1473 to FCO (0828Z) ("Central Committee Plenum") [leadership changes; Andropov's health] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow 13/14 February East/West Relations") [need to restart arms control talks, need for political understanding, bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of Chancellor Kohl: 28 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of the Dutch Prime Minister, Mr Lubbers, on 2 March”) [main brief] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to John Coles ("East/West Relations: Further Steps") [follow-up to MT visits to Budapest & Moscow: Soviet/British contacts; arms control] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Visit of the Prime Minister and Secretary of State to Moscow: Community Issues") [own resources/UK abatement, EC enlargement, emissions, GATT, Mediterranean programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Murray ('Encounter' interview with Zinoviev) [MT request for copy] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Whitelaw, Robert Armstrong, Patrick Wright, "C") ["Soviet concern about a surprise NATO attack"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 001 to FCO (1230Z) ("Prime Ministers Visit to Portugal") [NATO; East/West relations; Africa; Central America; Latin America; Gibraltar; Hong Kong; East Timor; Macao; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soares, Byatt, Tickell, Gama, Marta, Themido & others) [NATO; Africa; East Timor; Macau; relations with US; disarmament; Central America] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Eanes) ["Visit by the Prime Minister to Portugal": accession to EC; USSR; Hong Kong; Macau; Portugese economy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [summary of scheduled & prospective meetings] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [Howe recommends inviting Gorbachev, Aliev and Gromyko to UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to FCO ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [MT agrees to invite Gorbachev, Aliev and Gromyko to UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 861 to FCO (0430Z) ("Central Committe conference on the economy") [report] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) EC budget: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Fontainebleau European Council) [settlement of British budget question] [declassified 2008]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("UK/Soviet Relations") [arrangements for Howe visit to Moscow] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Sir Geoffrey Howe's Visit to Moscow") [MT rejects FCO plan to invite Chernenko to UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Your Visit to Moscow: 1-3 July: General Impressions") ["The first visit to the Soviet Union since 1977 by a British Foreign Secretary...was hard pounding"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister on 20 July") [wide-ranging review of "points of special interest or concern" in foreign policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister 20 July" - UK foreign policy overview) [MT: "May I have a spare copy for the flat to ponder on from time to time"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [MT "reflected out loud ... on a number of current problems"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Liaison Committee (documents for meeting) [agenda and papers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell note to MT (Gorbachev accepts invitation to visit UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("East/West Relations") [note on recent background & views on general policy guidelines for coming year] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Cabinet Office briefing book ("Anglo-Italian Summit 18-19 October 1984") [FCO, Treasury & other departments contributing] [declassified Feb 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 14 Su Press Major Commentary (Sunday Times) Brighton Bomb: (“Intelligence warnings that were ignored”) [“Police told of possible attack”]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Soviet Ambassador's Call 15 October: UK/Soviet Relations") [Soviet Ambassador to UK meets with Howe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [Gromyko and Gorbachev accept invitations to visit UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, Falklands at the UN, European Community, CERN, financial issues, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [proposed arrangements for Gorbachev visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Percy Cradock, 29 October") [his move to JIC chair; BMD; Gorbachev visit; MT Peking visit; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Lunch for Mr Gorbachev") [MT agrees to small lunch with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [East-West relations, Middle East, Southern Africa, SDI, arms control, China, Pakistan and Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for Michael Alison (Mikhael Gorbachev’s visit) [“We are hoping that the Prime Minister can unveil it in her speech in the Debate on the Address”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral") [briefs on UK/India relations, Indian internal and external affairs, bilateral meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shultz) [funeral of Indira Gandhi, terrorism, Cold War, Laker case] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Paddy Ashdown MP letter to MT (possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field) ["very serious questions which ought to be investigated"] [declassified Jan 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 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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