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PDF 89 Jun 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 conversation record (MT-President Bush) [NATO/East West relations and defence; Austrian membership of the EC; China; Vietnamese Boat People; Middle East; Lebanon; Southern Africa; Argentina; SDI; Environmental Questions; Cambodia; intelligence cooperation; IDU] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Bush) [Tiananmen Square] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 minute for MT ('China') [situation developing "very fast", possible UK measures; "you can probably afford to step up further your condemnation of what is happening"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute to MT (European Council Madrid: EC issues) [critical analysis of Howe-Lawson minute urging UK commits to join ERM by end 1992] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe-Lawson joint minute to MT ("EC issues, and Madrid") [urges Britain should set a non-legally binding timetable to join the ERM by end 1992] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Madrid European Council: Delors Report") [evolving UK position on ERM membership; meetings with Walters then Howe and Lawson] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Madrid European Council: ERM") [following meeting with Walters MT evolving her position before meeting Howe & Lawson] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute to MT ("Madrid European Council") [proposed line to take on entry to ERM] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson) [line to take in Madrid - MT "remained sceptical whether a concession by us on membership of the ERM would really achieve our agreed aim of blocking an IGC and Stages 2 and 3 of Delors"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Foreign Secretary & Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Madrid European Council: economic and monetary union") ["we would welcome the opportunity of another talk with you this week about what should be said there"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-National Party leader F.W. De Klerk: tête-à-tête) [MT "did not find his emphasis on group rights and the need to avoid tyranny by any one group of another was very helpful ... it would look as though white South Africans were expecting blacks to behave better to them than they had behaved towards the blacks"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (economic & monetary union: unscheduled meeting with Lawson & Howe) [MT agrees to meeting next day, prior to departure for European summit in Madrid; CDP: "very selfish"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Tomorrow's meeting") [Howe/Lawson: European Council Madrid: discussion of their concerns, primarily on ERM & Conservative Party divisions over Europe; outline of counter-arguments for MT to deploy if deemed necessary] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 25 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party/ERM: MT note on meeting with Howe and Lawson ("G.H. and N.L. Madrid Conference") ["Demanded that I give an undertaking to join the ERM and specify a date .... If not - they would both resign"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Madrid summit") [post mortem - "judgment of [Howe & Lawson]... was faulty" - no pressure to set date for entry; setting a date would not have forestalled future work on Stages 2 & 3] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Director Conservative Research Department briefing ("Report on 1989 Euro-Election Campaign") [too negative, substance not presentation the problem] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, John Gummer, Sir Terry Heiser) ["Role and structure of local government"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) China: White House/State Department memorandum ("Themes") [paper for Scowcroft/Eagleburger secret mission to Beijing] [declassified 1998]
PDF 89 Sep 4 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT bilateral with Chris Patten) [Community Charge (Patten did not propose safety net for individuals); litter; pollution; environment; planning; water; homelessness] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Sep 5 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) [implementation of NHS Review] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Sep 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Baker-Patten-Major) [local authority grant settlement - expectations of transition problems] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Sep 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Baker, Patten, Lamont, David Hunt, Brian Griffiths) ["Local authority grant settlement"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Sep 23 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Gorbachev's assessment of current internal situation; human rights/emigration; Eastern Europe; US/Soviet relations; arms control/chemical weapons/START; NATO/CFE/SNF; bilateral issues; environmentalism;China; Japan; Middle East; German unification/Warsaw Pact] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 89 Sep 23 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (National Security Archive) Cold War: MT conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev (extract from Soviet memcon in Gorbachev Archive) [“Britain & Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany”]
PDF 89 Oct 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull note for MT (Alan Walters article/interview) [MT: "advisers ADVISE, Ministers DECIDE policy"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT memoir ("Nigel Lawson's Resignation Oct 1989") ["unless I agreed to sack Alan Walters, he would hand in his resignation ... an absurd, indeed reprehensible proposition"] [released Mar 2019]
Text 89 Oct 31 Tu Declassified documents Key Lawson (Nigel) Economy: Resignation speech (Hansard)
PDF 89 Nov 2 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT message to President Gorbachev (developments in East Germany) ["I agree with you that the speed with which these changes are taking places carries its own risk of instability"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Nov 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Wakeham minute for MT ("Electricity Privatisation and Nuclear Power") [necessity of retaining nuclear power in public sector if electricity privatisation is to go ahead in this parliament] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Nov 5 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: MT letter to Alan Walters (his resignation) [thanks, regrets, explanations] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Nov 10 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT conversation record (MT-Kohl phone call) [fall of the Berlin Wall] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Nov 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["East/West Relations": "action required by the Government over the next week or so"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Nov 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (1500-1930Z) (MT, President Bush) [East/West relations; EC; China; Cambodia; Arab/Israel; Nicaragua; Afghanistan; Iran; Cyprus; Argentina; Defence spending; arms control; South Africa; Vietnamese refugees; India/Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Japan; Czechoslovakia; Australia/New Zealand; El Salvador] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Nov 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) USA: White House record of conversation (1500-1930Z) (MT, President Bush) [partial record] [declassified May 2009]
PDF 89 Dec 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Cold War: Bush-Kohl meeting record [memcon] (German unification) [declassified] [105K scan]
PDF 89 Dec 6 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Younger MSS) Leadership election: George Younger’s “Post Mortem Meeting Notes” (MT campaign team’s secret discussion)
PDF 89 Dec 8 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Leadership election: Lennox-Boyd note for MT (leadership election post mortem) [about 50 voted for you "with reluctance", you are vulnerable if another 50 become reluctant; enclosures from Younger in preparation for meeting] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Dec 8 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Younger MSS) Leadership election: George Younger’s “Report and Recommendations” (conclusions from leadership campaign) [“The result is not as good as the figures”]
Text 90 Jan 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) German unification: No.10 memorandum of conversation (MT & President Mitterrand) [prospect of unification had turned them into "the 'bad' Germans they used to be"] [declassified 2010]
Text 90 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Horst Teltschik diary Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl angry at MT’s criticisms in Wall Street Journal interview) [translation]
PDF 90 Jan 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, King, Clark, Hamilton, Waldegrave, Cradock, Weston, Mottram, Appleyard, Powell) ["Diplomatic and Defence Implications of Recent Developments in East/West Relations"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG policy on the German Question: German political director gives read out on Genscher's talks with Baker") ["Kastrup says that the situation in the GDR is now so near collapse that the Federal Government is embarking immediately on economic and monetary union.. Kastrup claims that Baker is on board for this"; CDP: "This is it: the Germans are going full tilt for reunification without waiting for anyone"] [declassified Jul 2017]
Text 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Key Horst Teltschik diary Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Charles Powell explains MT’s point of view on German unification) [translation]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: Powell letter to Wall ("Germany and NATO") ["To put it bluntly, we have to bear in mind - although not say - that we might one day need the Soviet Union as a counter-balance to a united Germany"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) Cold War: Charles Powell letter to Timothy Garton-Ash (agenda for Chequers German seminar) [declassified 2007]
PDF 90 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1990 Budget (Major 1) [Hansard extract] [139K file]
PDF 90 Mar 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Professor Gordon Craig, Profesor Fritz Stern, Lord Dacre, Professor Norman Stone, Timothy Garton-Ash, George Urban) [analysis of the anticipated role and character of a united Germany in Europe] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) Cold War: Chequers Seminar on Germany (“Summary Record”) [declassified 2007]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversations (MT-Major-Lamont-Portillo; joined by Butler, Wilson, Mills) [MT concluded that "the general public were blaming the Government for the high levels of community charge"; suggested proposals for radical review from 1991/92 on] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Lamont-Patten-Portillo) [MT: "with community charge at the present level, the system was leading to an intolerable burden"] [released Dec 2016]

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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).

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