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PDF 74 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph draft prospectus ("Centre for Policy Studies Limited") ["denationalisation ... not politically feasible"]
Info only 74 Jun 22 Sa Chronology Key [Chronology] Keith Joseph’s Upminster speech
Text 74 Jun 22 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Joseph (Sir Keith) Speech at Upminster (“This is not the Time to be Mealy-Mouthed: Intervention is Destroying us”)
PDF 74 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris letter to Keith Joseph (attacks his ruling out denationalization) ["blinkered vision"]
PDF 74 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (agrees on denationalization) ["strong grounds for your complaints ... strong wish of several subscribers that we should be realistic"]
PDF 74 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (update - CPS in existence but not yet active) ["steeping myself in Hayek"]
Text 74 Aug 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Joseph (Sir Keith) Speech at Leith (“Inflation is Decapitalising British Industry”)
Video 74 Aug 28 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher (& others) Party Political Broadcast (pledges to cap mortgage rate, sell council houses, abolish rates) [film]
CD only 74 Aug 28 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference on housing and rates
Info only 74 Sep 5 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Keith Joseph’s Preston speech
Text 74 Sep 5 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Joseph (Sir Keith) Speech at Preston (“Inflation is Caused by Governments”)
PDF 74 Sep 6 Fr Press Key Commentary (The Times) Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph blames full employment policies for inflation” (Peter Jay on KJ speech at Preston - “Inflation is Caused by Governments”)
PDF 74 Sep 6 Fr Press Key Commentary (The Times) Conservatism: “The Sharp Shock of Truth” (leading article on KJ speech at Preston)
Video 74 Sep 27 Fr Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher (& others) Party Election Broadcast (pledges to cap mortgage rate, sell council houses, help first-time buyers) [film]
Text 74 Sep 27 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher General Election Press Conference
Video 74 Sep 30 Mo Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher (& others) Party Election Broadcast (Housing) [defends her “firm and unshakeable pledges”] [film]
Video 74 Oct 3 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher (& others) Party Election Broadcast (“I’m All Right, Jack”) [film]
CD only 74 Oct 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Radio Broadcast for BBC Radio 4 Any Questions?
Info only 74 Oct 10 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] General Election: Labour majority of three
CD only 74 Oct 11 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Evening News (party leadership speculation - "You can cross my name off the list ")
CD only 74 Oct 17 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Sunday Express (party leadership)
CD only 74 Oct 18 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Evening Standard
Info only 74 Oct 19 Sa Chronology Key [Chronology] Keith Joseph’s Edgbaston speech
Text 74 Oct 19 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Joseph (Sir Keith) Speech at Edgbaston (“our human stock is threatened”)
PDF 74 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (thanks for praise of Preston speech) ["most grateful for your blessing"]
Text 74 Nov 5 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S [Debate on the Address - State of the Nation (Opposition Amendment)]
PDF 74 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative leadership: Hailsham diary (close allies discuss Heath's future)
Info only 74 Nov 21 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Keith Joseph told MT he would not stand for the leadership; MT decided she would
CD only 74 Nov 24 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Daily Mail (decision to fight for party leadership)
Text 75 Jan 30 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Article for Daily Telegraph ("My Kind of Tory Party")
Text 75 Jan 31 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Granada TV World in Action
Text 75 Jan 31 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech in Finchley (Conservative leadership election)
Text 75 Feb 1 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Letter to her constituency chairman (Conservative leadership election)
PDF 75 Feb 3 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Vaizey MSS) Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (senses a "yearning to get things right again among people of many political views")
Info only 75 Feb 4 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Conservative leadership first ballot: Heath resigned
Text 75 Feb 4 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after winning first ballot
Info only 75 Feb 11 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Conservative leadership second ballot: MT elected leader
PDF 75 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative leadership election: MT’s notes on handling Ted Heath
Text 75 Feb 11 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after winning Conservative leadership (Grand Committee Room)
Text 75 Feb 11 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after winning Conservative leadership (Conservative Central Office)
PDF 75 Feb 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative leadership: MT letter to Hailsham (warm thanks) [realises magnitude of her task]
Info only 75 Feb 18 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Shadow Cabinet complete
Audio 75 Feb 28 Fr Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to West Dorset Conservatives [complete audio tape]
Video 75 Mar 5 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Party Political Broadcast (introducing MT) [film]
PDF 75 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Joseph "Notes towards the definition of policy") [464K]
Text 75 Apr 8 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S [European Community (Membership)]
Info only 75 Apr 9 We Chronology Key [Chronology] MT met Ronald Reagan for the first time (or possibly the second)
PDF 75 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative policy: Hailsham diary (Shadow Cabinet squabbles over Keith Joseph paper)
PDF 75 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 57th Meeting
PDF 75 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (fall of Saigon) ["a dark day ... somehow the shadows seem to have lengthened"] [released 2003]

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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