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Text 90 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Cold War: US Ambassador (London) telegram to President Bush (British hopes for Thatcher-Bush Bermuda meeting) [declassified 1997] [external link]
PDF 90 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Towards a Community Charge package") [too high, unjust between authorities, unfair between individuals; wants relief for worst hit &'multiplier' based on house value for richest; easing of fiscal stance] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Cold War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Bermuda (record of conversation) [declassified 2003]
PDF 90 Apr 15 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Bermuda: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush) [Germany; NATO; nuclear arms in Europe; USSR; CSCE; COCOM; CFE; chemical warfare; Anglo-French defence; UK defence policy; Trident; Middle East; Central America; China; Hong Kong; Vietnamese refugees; S. Africa; Mozambique; Kashmir; Afghanistan; Cyprus; Argentina/Falklands] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("EMU") [meeting with the Chancellor; our evolutionary approach has run out of steam; options for handling EMU] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) [possible delay in introduction of NHS and community care reforms] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 19 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [MT thought De Klerk had grown in stature since last meeting; moving speeches over lunch marked return of South Africa's "acceptance back into the international community"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major minute for MT ('EMU') [risk of "the beginning of a path to a two-tier Europe"; MT: "What's wrong with that if the other tier is going in the wrong direction?"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 May 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: EMU") [MT sceptical others would go ahead without us, and even if they did, does not believe UK should follow "a fundamentally wrong direction"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 May 31 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Wicks) [EMU - MT rejects Major suggestion that UK should accept Treaty committing to EMU "leaving to individual states ... whether and when to join"; instead, campaign to instill doubts about EMU and in favour of alternative concepts] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 8 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Germany; NATO/Warsaw Pact/US forces in Europe; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; the nuclear deterrent; CSCE; Lithuania; biological weapons; Oleg Gordievsky; UK Embassy residence; Royal visit; environmental issues; the transition from socialism to a free market economy; Middle East; Israel/Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [ERM - MT "said she no longer had reservations about the UK joining .... The issue was when was the right time to join"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Nick Ridley minute to MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") [promote regional groupings or currency arrangements; for trade "it is the Single Market which matters"; "To be alone in the 12 is not the end of the world, nor would we be alone if other candidates were allowed to join the EC"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 17 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (Mandela phone call to MT) [asks her not to press colleagues at upcoming European Council to lift sanctions; MT afterwards said she was "a bit disappointed with Mandela, who seemed to have rather a closed mind"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Solicitor-General minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [judgments in capping cases, ability of government to implement policies] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 letter to Law Officers Department ("Community Charge") [MT surprised at Solicitor-General's new advice that existing capping powers could be used so extensively] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) ["NHS Reforms" - Clarke convinced reforms had to be introduced next year; MT agreed, with reservations] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mandela) ["a successful meeting with an excellent atmosphere ... he expressed his views on the main issues in conciliatory terms"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [uncertain response] [declassified 2012]
PDF 90 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf ["It's fortunate that Mrs Thatcher is at Aspen"] [declassified 2000]
PDF 90 Aug 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [military options] [declassified 2000]
PDF 90 Aug 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (President Bush-Saudi King Fahd) [Bush: "We need your view on a US force presence [in Saudi Arabia]"; Fahd: "We think we have a few days to coordinate, to make a tight, successful plan"] [declassified Aug 2009]
PDF 90 Aug 5 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes [covert options; UN; Saudi Arabia] [declassified2000]
PDF 90 Sep 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute for Turnbull (Chancellor's statement on ERM entry) [MT "pretty indignant" with 'panic' statement and with Governor's reaction] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017]
Text 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Bush & Scowcroft memoir Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt]
PDF 90 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT, political union, Germany, EMU, EBRD, enlargement, Soviet Union, the Gulf, defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT; European political union; Germany; EMU; Turkey; EBRD; EC membership; USSR; the Gulf; Defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Powell, General Scowcroft) [background for MT forthcoming talk with President Bush: Administration debates] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UK position paper ("Iraq/Kuwait: UK Position Paper") [Strategic Objectives, Military Objectives, Guidance to military commanders, Co-ordination with allies] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting MT & Hurd) [declassified 1999]
PDF 90 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ingham note to MT (Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech) [text from which Howe spoke] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Kenneth Baker memo to MT (Party Leadership contest: campaign strategy) ["your overriding theme should be Party unity, under your leadership"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) [Kohl's "slightly heavy handed display of solidarity" over leadership election; MT wanting IGCs not to conclude 'rapidly'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Peter Morrison minute to MT (Party Leadership election) [lines to take] [released Feb 2020]
Text 90 Nov 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham press briefings (Paris Embassy) [after the first ballot] [released 2015]
PDF 90 Nov 22 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Resignation: Gorbachev letter to MT (parting thoughts) [“very warm message”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 90 Nov 23 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Charles Powell letter to MT (her resignation) ["the small men who contrived their petty coup"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Turnbull memorandum ("Prime Minister's resignation, 22 November 1990") [events 20-22 Nov] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Resignation: MT letter to President Gorbachev (parting thoughts) [“together we really did contribute to changing our world”] [declassified 2016]

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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