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PDF PREM19/15 79 May 16 79 Nov 29 226 Secret Defence (Modernisation of Theatre Nuclear Forces)(Part 1)
PDF PREM19/41 79 May 4 79 May 7 93 Secret Elections (Briefing for incoming PM)
PDF PREM19/107 79 Jun 1 79 Jul 4 382 Secret Rhodesia (Situation in) (Part 2)
PDF PREM19/143 79 May 23 80 Nov 6 248 Confidential Canada (UK/Canadian relations: patriation of the Canadian constitution) (Part 1)
PDF PREM19/669 81 Oct 26 82 Feb 9 285 Confidential Canada (UK/Canadian relations: patriation of the Canadian constitution) (Part 4)
PDF PREM19/671 79 Oct 19 82 Jun 4 244 Confidential Civil service (Dispersal programme) (Part 2)
PDF PREM19/720 81 Dec 23 82 Aug 26 289 Secret Economic policy (Liaison Committee on presentation of government policies; guidance to Ministers and MPs) (Part 1)
PDF PREM19/723 82 Mar 4 82 Jun 2 214 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - Versailles) (Part 7)
PDF PREM19/724 82 Jun 3 82 Jun 5 213 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - Versailles) (Part 8)
PDF PREM19/743 79 May 7 82 Feb 25 252 Secret European policy (European Monetary System (EMS)) (Part 1)
PDF PREM19/764 82 Mar 1 82 May 26 242 Secret Germany (Chancellor Schmidt's visit to the UK, March 1982: meetings with the Prime Minister) (Parts 4 & 5)
PDF PREM19/810 79 Jul 6 82 Nov 10 72 Confidential Industrial policy (Impact of government on industry; Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Trenchard, Minister of State, Department of Industry)
PDF PREM19/848 79 Oct 17 82 Jan 27 201 Secret National health (Nurses' and midwives' pay; report of Standing Commission on Pay Comparability (Clegg report)) (Part 1)
PDF PREM19/968 83 May 26 83 Sep 20 245 Secret Civil service (Long-term management and manpower policy; Financial Management Initiative - draft White Paper; policy on Civil Service numbers; personnel work in Civil Service; the extension of unified grading) (Part 13)
PDF PREM19/993 80 Mar 14 83 Dec 23 411 Confidential Economic policy (Reform of personal taxation; taxation of savings; mortgage interest tax relief; taxation of husband and wife) (Part 1)
PDF PREM19/1005 79 May 30 83 Nov 30 190 Confidential Economic policy (Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976: exemption of Stock Exchange)
PDF PREM19/1023 82 Sep 24 83 Feb 10 172 Secret European policy (European Council meeting, Copenhagen, December 1982) (Part 12)
PDF PREM19/1029 82 Nov 1 83 Jun 23 266 Secret European policy (European Council meeting, Stuttgart, June 1983) (Part 16 (incorporating Part 14))
PDF PREM19/1062 81 Aug 4 83 Oct 20 146 Confidential Industrial policy (Prime Minister's meetings with Confederation of British Industry (CBI)) (Part 3)
PDF PREM19/1065 79 Jun 7 83 May 13 76 Confidential Industrial policy (Port of London Authority (PLA); five year plan; finances; closures; possible industrial action)
PDF PREM19/1067 82 Jun 29 83 Apr 18 177 Confidential Industrial policy (Versailles G7 Summit: Working Group on Technology)
PDF PREM19/1068 82 Nov 16 83 Jul 25 277 Secret Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 13)
PDF PREM19/1073 82 Nov 22 83 Oct 31 295 Confidential Japan (Commercial relations with Japan; effects of Japanese imports on the European car industry; possible Nissan investment in UK) (Part 3)
PDF PREM19/1107 79 Apr 6 83 Jun 8 162 Secret Prime Minister (Briefing for incoming Prime Minister from Cabinet Office, Prime Minister's Office and Civil Service Department, May 1979; post-election briefing, June 1983)
PDF PREM19/1111 81 Jul 14 83 Jan 24 189 Confidential Prime Minister (Prime Minister's meetings with Dr David Clark MP about factory closures and unemployment in his South Shields constituency)
PDF PREM19/1114 81 Nov 19 83 Aug 9 248 Confidential Regional policy (Urban Development Corporations; regeneration of Liverpool and London Docklands; Medway Towns; inner city policy and problems) (Part 3)
PDF PREM19/1115 81 Jun 30 83 Jan 27 215 Confidential Regional policy (Review of regional policy, creation of Enterprise Zones) (Part 4)
PDF PREM19/1116 83 Feb 11 83 Oct 31 206 Confidential Regional policy (Review of regional policy; creation of Enterprise Zones) (Part 5)
PDF PREM19/1142 83 Jan 28 83 Feb 25 15 Unclassified Statistics (International competitiveness and productivity: production statistics and measurement of quality improvements)
PDF PREM19/1143 79 Jun 21 83 Aug 12 174 Confidential Statistics (Introduction of new Tax and Price Index (TPI) to be published alongside Retail Price Index (RPI))
PDF PREM19/1145 82 Jul 19 83 Dec 22 228 Confidential Trade (Intellectual property rights and innovation)
PDF PREM19/1149 83 Apr 18 83 May 19 56 Confidential USA (Visit to UK by Edwin Meese, Counsellor to President Reagan: meeting with Prime Minister, May 1983)
PDF PREM19/1158 82 Sep 1 82 Sep 30 142 Confidential Manpower (Measures to counter unemployment; Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS) report on unemployment, September 1982) (Part 8A)
PDF PREM19/1160 82 Sep 6 83 Jan 29 355 Unclassified Manpower (Measures to counter unemployment; annexes to report by Professor Patrick Minford, 'UK unemployment - analysis and policy proposals') (Part 8C)
PDF PREM19/1161 83 Feb 1 83 Jun 30 400 Secret Manpower (Measures to counter unemployment) (Part 9)
PDF PREM19/1163 84 Mar 5 84 Sep 27 313 Secret Aerospace (Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Review; airline competition policy; position of British Caledonian and other independent airlines) (Part 2)
PDF PREM19/1200 83 Sep 1 84 Feb 24 338 Secret Economic policy (International finance; Western banking system; indebtedness) (Part 3)
PDF PREM19/1201 84 Mar 5 84 Dec 31 464 Secret Economic policy (International finance; Western banking system; indebtedness) (Part 4)
PDF PREM19/1203 83 Oct 5 84 Aug 1 213 Confidential Economic policy (Policy on small firms; administrative and legislative burdens; Loan Guarantee Scheme) (Part 4)
PDF PREM19/1206 83 Jan 28 84 Feb 29 327 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - London) (Part 14)
PDF PREM19/1207 84 Mar 2 84 May 21 368 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - London) (Part 15)
PDF PREM19/1208 84 May 22 84 May 30 212 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - London) (Part 16A)
PDF PREM19/1209 84 May 29 84 Jun 1 122 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - London) (Part 16B)
PDF PREM19/1210 84 Jun 1 84 Jun 7 140 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - London) (Part 16C)
PDF PREM19/1211 84 Jun 8 84 Nov 23 254 Secret Economic policy (G7 Summit - London) (Part 17)
PDF PREM19/1217 84 Jun 1 84 Oct 31 244 Confidential Environmental affairs (Environmental policy: acid rain, pollution control; Environment Committee report; agriculture and conservation; reports of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution) (Part 2)
PDF PREM19/1245 83 Oct 11 84 Aug 29 455 Secret Germany (Visits to UK by Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Anglo-German Summit) (Part 8)
PDF PREM19/1251 84 Mar 1 84 Jul 30 349 Confidential Government machinery (Promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste: the Scrutiny Programme) (Part 15)
PDF PREM19/1261 81 Jun 12 84 Jul 13 22 Confidential Home affairs (Proposed acquisition of Observer newspaper by Tiny Rowland's Lonrho Group; Robert Maxwell's bids for Mirror Group and Express Group of newspapers)
PDF PREM19/1274 82 Aug 2 84 Mar 27 280 Secret and Personal Industrial policy (The future of British Leyland (BL)) (Part 7)
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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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