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PDF 75 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (danger of Wilson recruiting Heath)
PDF 75 Aug 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Professor Merrett (economic & political outlook)
PDF 75 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ford Library) Cold War: White House memcon (President Ford, Brent Scowcroft, MT) [declassified 2004]
PDF 75 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Economic Reconstruction Group - Minutes of Meeting 9
PDF 75 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Economic Reconstruction Group - Minutes of Meeting 10
PDF 76 Jan 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Heath: Hailsham diary (Heath says MT no good) ["I am much better and I ought to be there still"]
PDF 76 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 97th Meeting
PDF 76 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 98th Meeting
PDF 76 Mar 1 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lawson to MT ("benign neglect" of trade union leaders)
PDF 76 Mar 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Lawson (incomes policy cannot work without union support)
PDF 76 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Maudling "Incomes Policy")
PDF 76 May 26 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Thorneycroft note for MT (suggestions for an economic speech)
PDF 76 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Heseltine "Industrial Policy Recommendations") [325K]
PDF 76 Jul 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Heseltine on nationalised industries; Nationalised Industries Policy Group - Report)
PDF 76 Aug 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph notes (goals) ["internal note by KJ"]
PDF 76 Oct 1 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Labour: Hailsham diary (Brian Walden offers support to bring down government) [coded entry with translation]
Text 76 Oct 4 Mo Declassified documents Key Conservative Party The Right Approach (Conservative policy statement)
PDF 76 Oct 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Joseph & Maude on next stage of policy work)
PDF 76 Nov 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (criticism of Keith Joseph) ["You wear too much sackcloth"]
PDF 76 Dec 7 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Joseph "Our Tone of Voice & Our Tasks") [273K]
PDF 76 Dec 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (threatens to resign over devolution) [likely to go "if the Scots went"]
PDF 76 Dec 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham letter to Angus Maude (devolution) [still thinks of resigning]
PDF 77 Mar 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Howe on pay policy)
PDF 77 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 156th Meeting
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 Apr 7 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Sir Keith Joseph (general economic approach)
PDF 77 May 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT ("Concerted Action" frightens MT to death)
PDF 77 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Jim Prior (conversation with union leader, John Lyons) ["in general terms a monetarist"]
PDF 77 Jun 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Report of Nationalised Industries Policy Group (leaked Ridley report)
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 77 Oct 8 Sa Declassified documents Key Conservative Party The Right Approach to the Economy (Conservative policy statement)
PDF 77 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherman letter to MT (initiatives) [proposes Tories bid for social democracy as Labour becomes marxist]
PDF 77 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Richard Ryder letter to Sherman (speech outline on Conservatives as “heirs to the Social-Democratic heritage”) [MT ‘very impressed’ - go ahead as soon as possible]
PDF 77 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (devolution meeting) [MT moving towards federalism with England a single unit]
PDF 77 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: “Stepping Stones” Report (final text)
PDF 78 Jan 11 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe speech draft on trade unions (MT: "the press will crucify you for this")
PDF 78 Jan 15 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Strategy: Lawson paper (Patten paper on "Stepping Stones") [513K]
PDF 78 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Hoskyns on "Stepping Stones")
PDF 78 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 51st Meeting (argument over "Stepping Stones")
PDF 78 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Whitelaw on control of immigration)
PDF 78 Feb 16 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Whitelaw "The Control of Immigration")
PDF 78 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Patten on "Stepping Stones" & strategy)
PDF 78 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Whitelaw "The Control of Immigration" - supplementary paper)
PDF 78 Feb 27 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 54th Meeting ("Stepping Stones")
Text 78 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Key Commentary (The Times) Strikes: “Mrs Thatcher warned in secret report of defeat in confrontation with unions” (leak of Carrington Report - Authority of Government Policy Group)
PDF 78 Jul 19 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lawson to MT (denies Conservative economic plans will increase unemployment)
PDF 78 Aug 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Conservative Party Manifesto for 1978 General Election - 2nd draft) [1,436K]
PDF 78 Oct 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 220th Meeting (Rhodesia discussion - extended minute)
PDF 78 Oct 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Strategy: Lawson to MT (importance of her faith & resolve)
PDF 78 Oct 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Meeting of Shadows (Conservative view of European Monetary System) [deciding what to advise MT]

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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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