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PDF 36 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Grantham Journal) 1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts address as Rotary President ("a manacled age")
PDF 39 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Grantham Journal) 1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts Rotary address (Chamberlain's "will intent on peace")
PDF 41 Jan 1 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts (extract from sermon notes) ("Mahogany & Child") [123K high quality scan]
PDF 41 Jan 1 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts (extract from sermon notes) ("Strength comes from within") [132K high quality scan]
PDF 44 May 1 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: 1944 Employment White Paper [MT's annotated copy]
PDF 45 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1943-47 (Oxford): Oxford University Conservative Association Report (reacting to 1945 election defeat) [report co-authored by Margaret Roberts, Michael Kinchin-Smith and Stanley Moss]
PDF 48 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): J.L.M. Miller to Margaret Roberts (offers interview for Dartford "short list")
PDF 49 Jan 3 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): J.L.M. Miller to Margaret Roberts (chosen for Dartford "short list")
PDF 52 May 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Grantham Journal) Early life Photo of Alfred Roberts laying down his robes as Alderman (voted out by Labour)
PDF 52 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Conservative Party) 1949-59 (candidate): Beryl Cook to John Hare ("without exception the best woman candidate I have known")
PDF 52 Jun 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): John Hare interview with MT ("immense personality & charm")
PDF 52 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): Beryl Cook note on MT ("an amazing young woman")
PDF 55 Jan 3 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): MT to Hare (not thinking of a parliamentary career for "many years")
PDF 55 Jan 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): MT to Hare (mind made up to pursue law "to the exclusion of politics")
PDF 56 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): MT to Donald Kaberry (asks to meet)
PDF 56 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Conservative Party) 1949-59 (candidate): Donald Kaberry Interview with MT (wishes to return to list)
PDF 58 Aug 18 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1949-59 (candidate): MT to Kaberry ("anti-woman prejudice")
PDF 60 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Private Member's Bill: MT notes for her maiden speech
PDF 70 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Education: Private Office minute to Heath (not practicable to exclude MT from discussion of education policy) [declassified 2003]
PDF 72 Jan 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Education: Minute of Chequers meeting with Heath [declassified] [240K scan]
PDF 72 Feb 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Miners' strike: Hailsham diary (government's hand forced) [coded diary with translation]
PDF 72 Feb 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Miners' strike: Cabinet minutes (government's hand forced) [CM (72) 8th Conclusions]
PDF 73 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Conservative Party: State Department record of MT conversation (lunch at the Connaught) [declassified 1998]
PDF 73 Jun 24 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Conservative Party: Chief Whip note to PM (MT would like to leave Education but not go to Health) [reshuffle recommendations] [declassified 2002]
PDF 74 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) General Election: Hailsham diary (MT & Keith Joseph oppose deal with Liberals)
PDF 74 Mar 2 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Heath: Robert Armstrong note (“Note for the Record”) [Heath meeting with Thorpe] [declassified 2005]
PDF 74 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) General Election: Hailsham diary (note of failed negotiations with Liberals)
PDF 74 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Key Education: MT to John Vaizey (despite the problems thoroughly enjoyed her time at the DES)
PDF 74 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris record of conversation (visit from Keith Joseph) [plans "a new 'crusade' for private enterprise", acknowledging 'guilt' for Heath Government failings]
PDF 74 Mar 16 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Heath: Robert Armstrong note (“Events leading to the resignation of Mr Heath’s Administration on 4 March 1974”) [declassified Oct 2005]
PDF 74 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph note ("The Erhard Foundation") [Fabian Society for Conservatives, Howe among managing trustees]
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"]
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"]
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"]
PDF 74 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative leadership: Hailsham diary (close allies discuss Heath's future)
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")
PDF 75 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative leadership election: MT’s notes on handling Ted Heath
PDF 75 Feb 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative leadership: MT letter to Hailsham (warm thanks) [realises magnitude of her task]
PDF 75 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Joseph "Notes towards the definition of policy") [464K]
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]
PDF 75 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 27th Meeting
PDF 75 May 18 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Fentiman Road seminar (principles of economic policy)
PDF 75 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Maudling on economics)
PDF 75 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 29th Meeting
PDF 75 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (coalition risks)
PDF 75 Jul 27 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Heath: MT letter to Hailsham (coalition risks)
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]
PDF 78 Oct 30 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ronnie Millar to MT (right approach between now & election) [stress failure of pay policy while giving Ted his dignity]
PDF 78 Oct 30 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Lawson note for MT ("The European Monetary System")
PDF 78 Oct 31 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to MT ("European Monetary System") [Conservative line]
PDF 78 Nov 15 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting (attitude to European Monetary System)
Text 78 Nov 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bundesbank) EMS: Bundesbank Council meeting with Chancellor Schmidt (assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Jan 15 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 61st Meeting (Commons debate on industrial situation)
PDF 79 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT's notes for her Commons speech (offer to HMG) [391K]
PDF 79 Feb 23 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to John Nott (Bank sympathise with exchange control abolition)
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 64th Meeting (manifesto drafting)
PDF 79 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 239th Meeting (Government defeated on confidence motion)
PDF 79 Mar 31 Sa Declassified documents Key Henderson (Sir Nicholas) Economy: The Henderson Despatch (British decline, causes & consequences) [leaked 1979; declassified 2006]
Text 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Key Conservative Party Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Ken Stowe) [handover of power] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Draft remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis's prayer)
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: MT draft (St Francis’s Prayer) [“moving & beautiful song of St Francis”] [released 2015]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...")
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (Energy, EC, East/West, etc) [master copy of whole briefing set][declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Summary and Timetable of Urgent Economic Issues”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“The Budget”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Pay and Cash Limits”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for MT ('Rhodesia') [MT: "I agree we need care but a little courage is necessary too"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT notes for cabinet-making (near final copy?) [Heseltine refuses Energy; alternative names for other jobs, etc] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) General Election: MT to Ronnie Millar (letter of thanks) [“I could not have done it without you”]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) General Election: MT to John Hoskyns (letter of thanks) ['invaluable' contribution over past two years, "a new dimension to the way ... the Party thinks and operates"]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Vance-Brown memo to Carter (urging TNF modernization) [declassified 1997]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Ronnie Millar letter to MT (congratulations) [“At least three Parliaments’ worth of work to do”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 12 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) US: Brzezinski memo for Carter (Thatcher no longer "the dogmatic lady" who visited in 1977) [declassified 2000]
PDF 79 May 17 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Daily Mail editor David English (thanks for congratulations) [“You have been a wonderful friend in recent years ... I hope I will not let you down”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 24 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Sun editor Larry Lamb (thanks for congratulations) [“your encouragement meant so much”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Ronne Millar draft Party Election Broadcast (European Elections) [MT: “This is NOT a script for me”] [released 2010]
Text 79 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1979 Budget (Howe 1)
PDF 79 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The European Monetary System") [economic considerations should have primacy in UK decision] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 24 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Housing: MT note for Chancellor of the Exchequer (mortgage rate) [MT concerned at press reports mortgage rates may go up in a few days; "This MUST NOT happen"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jun 24 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: MT note to Chancellor of the Exchequer (press reports possible increase in mortgage rates) [“This MUST NOT happen” - if necessary cap by subsidy] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT meeting with Soviet PM Kosygin (record of conversation) [stop-over in Moscow en route to Tokyo] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: MT meeting with ministers (record of conversation) [mortgage rates - possible subsidy] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Zimbabwe/Rhodesia PM Bishop Muzorewa) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 21 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Nicholas Ridley, Falkland Island Councillors) [taxation, agriculture, oil industry, nationality, cooperation with Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 5 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: MT notebook (conversation at Lusaka CHOGM retreat) [case for British initiative on Rhodesia] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Carrington regards success in constitutional conference as "virtually inconceivable"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter letter to MT (Mountbatten) [“tragic death”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economy: Lawson minute to Howe ("Economic and Financial Situation Report") ["strong £ is the biggest thing we have going for us"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 3 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to President Carter (Mountbatten) [“brutal and senseless murder”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [Carrington's copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [MT comments on leaseback scheme: "I could not possibly agree to the line the Foreign Secretary is proposing"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (“Thoughts on the Moral Case I”) [“There is no such thing as a collective conscience ...”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (“The First Few Months”) [“Not just actions but attitudes”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Key EC: Donald Maitland minute to Foreign Secretary (state of EC-UK relations) ["the mood is sober, if not sombre"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Hall minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") [MT "profoundly unhappy"; interest rates not working, new mechanisms needed] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter phone call to MT & Giscard (Iran) [asks UK to reduce its diplomatic presence in Iran] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Speech to Dublin European Council (urges British budget rebate) [“arrangement would last as long as the problem”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT plenary meeting with President Carter) [Iran, Rhodesia, Middle East, energy, Northern Ireland, defence] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT restricted meeting with President Carter) [Diego Garcia; China; Cambodia] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Carter, Vance, Brzezinski, Lord Carrington) [“The successor to Polaris”] [declassified 2012]
Text 79 Dec 23 Su Declassified documents Key Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary US: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington)
PDF 79 Dec 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [“extremely grave development”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Dec 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996]
PDF 79 Dec 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Carter phone call to Giscard (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996]
PDF 79 Dec 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Carter phone call to Schmidt (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996]
PDF 79 Dec 29 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to President Brezhnev (Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan) [“profoundly disturbed”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Dec 29 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Brezhnev letter to Carter (defending Afghanistan invasion) [declassified 1995]
PDF 79 Dec 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (PM’s letter to Brezhnev) [MT “profoundly disturbed at recent developments in Afghanistan”] [released 2010]
PDF 80 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Signor Cossiga) [detente, US-European relations, world affairs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: FCO letter to British Embassy Madrid (“The Armero Affair” ) [Lisbon Declaration negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Carter note (British & European reaction to Afghanistan invasion “very weak”) [unclassified]
PDF 80 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Community: UK contribution to the budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 17 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversations (MT phone calls with Joseph, Whitelaw, Havers, Howe) [picketing at Hadfields] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Medium Term Financial Strategy”) [minutes disagreement, copied to MT & Wass] [declassified 2013]
Text 80 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1980 Budget (Howe 2)
PDF 80 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sherman minute to MT ("Need for Better Economic Advice - in re Alan Walters") [Walters ready to return from US if made a reasonable offer] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Council: budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Council: Iran] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Gow minute to MT (“Employment Bill”) [Chief Whip knows Ian Percival is behind dissent to Clause 16] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jun 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [extract] [reflections on Venice summit] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jun 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [extract] [patriation of Canadian Constitution, Anglo-Canadian air talks, G7 summit in Venice] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Incomes, Inflation & Unemployment”) [“there really is not much difference in substance between us”] [declassified 2013]
Text 80 Aug 4 Mo Declassified documents Key Lawson (Nigel) Economy: The New Conservatism (Lecture to the Bow Group)
PDF 80 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falklands (Ridley-Cavandoli secret meeting near Geneva, 10-11 Sep) [leaseback with 99 year term agreed as basis to proceed] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“The Bank’s position on monetary policy”) [“The PM has told us that she would like to have the exchange rate lower”] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Nott letter to Carrington (“Trade with the Soviet Union”) [protecting UK’s competitive position] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Sep 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor phone call to Lankester) ["uncomfortable meeting ... the Governor should not be alarmed about it"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 22 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (“Economic Strategy”) [Wass, Ryrie & Burns propose change of course] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 23 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Lavelle draft paper (“Inflow controls and other options for reducing the exchange rate”) [pros and cons] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 25 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Ryrie & McMahon) [Wass, Ryrie & Burns urge public sector pay freeze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 28 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to Chancellor ("Reducing the exchange rate: inflow controls & other options") [inflow controls offering cover] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No. 10 record of conversation (Monetary Policy Seminar) [system of monetary control; debate over future monetary policy] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Wass minute to Couzens (“The Exchange Rate”) [Wass called to No.10 for talk with MT] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“The Roll-over and policy generally: tomorrow’s meeting with the Chancellor”) [“the exchange rate now cries out for action”] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: SCC meeting on “Polish Contingencies” [declassified 2000]
PDF 80 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation among officials (“The Exchange Rate: Contingency Planning”) [“possibilities for action if the exchange rate continued to move upward”] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“Policy and the exchange rate”) [“The level of the exchange rate is now clearly intolerable ”] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Sir Y K Pao”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 7 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(80) 23rd (Falkland Islands, Health of the Alliance) [OD approves Ridley putting leaseback to Falkland Islanders] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury minute to No.10 ("The financial effects of a 2 point cut in MLR") [markets getting ready to accept - medium-term will depend on budget] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Mr Ridley's statement") [leaseback - "Mr Ridley had an awful time in the House this afternoon"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Cockfield minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Biffen minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Rees minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Questionnaire") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Wiggins minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot responses from HMT ministers and advisors] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Jan 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Alan Walters diary (1981) [whole year transcribed as a single document] [released 2013]
PDF 81 Jan 4 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Note for the Record") ["Rupert Murdoch Lunch"] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jan 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (first meetings with MT as economic adviser) ["What should she do about Geoffrey? Who could she promote. No one"] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jan 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (meeting with MT) [MT on Niehans: "no one must know about it"] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jan 14 We Declassified documents Key Lawson (Nigel) Economy: Thatcherism in Practice: A Progress Report (Speech to Zurich Society of Economics)
Text 81 Jan 17 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Monetary policy: Hoskyns diary (Chequers meeting) [discussion of “PSBR crisis”]
Text 81 Jan 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (inaugural congratulations) [unclassified]
PDF 81 Jan 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: No.10 telcon (Reagan phone call to MT on inauguration day) [MT promises to brief him on her mistakes] [declassified 2010]
PDF 81 Jan 30 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") [urges £1b "industrial package" & direct action to reduce sterling 5-10 per cent] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("The Money Supply Target") [separate monetary & fiscal targets perhaps better than £M3] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Policy & the Budget"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott, Carrington) [future defence policy/cutbacks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Budget discussion - no decisions] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Howe thinks PSBR below £11b not "politically possible"] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget discussion) [MT & Howe rejecting draconian budget as "not on politically"]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [response to Wass working group] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Middleton minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [analysis of his report] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe now wants to raise basic rate in order to increase allowances; MT agrees] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [Middleton critique “wholly valid”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [necessity of a tough budget] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT meeting with Howe & Wass) [“PM told GH he must get the PSBR down or ‘you are for the chop’”] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Budget: Alan Walters diary (MT-Howe-Wass budget meeting) [MT telling Howe get down PSBR or "you are for the chop"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 24 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor & Wass) [MT 'dismayed' at £11.25b PSBR, but accepted Howe rejection of increased basic rate] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers & officials) [decisions to freeze income tax & CTT thresholds, reducing PSBR by further £1b] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe reports decision to freeze thresholds & reduce PSBR below £11b] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Key Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington)
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 briefing for MT (Reagan-Thatcher discussions) [topics to raise] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan plenary) [East/West, Central America especially Belize; jellybeans] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 note of conversation (Reagan-Thatcher meeting) [plenary session] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters letter to Sir Douglas Wass (disappointment at budget measures) [budget proposals "too little and of the wrong kind"; maximum 1 per cent MLR cut] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Middleton minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [urges 2 point cut “to give a proper balance”] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Riley minute to Middleton (“MLR Cuts in the Budget”) [2 point cut consistent with £M3 target; estimates impact on company sector’s finances] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [agrees with Middleton, 2 point cut “needed to give a proper balance to the Budget”] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Ryrie minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [agrees with Middleton, 2 point cut. “There should be some tangible benefit apparently flowing from the harsh measures you are taking”] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Wass minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [“The case for considering 2 percent now is in my view largely political”, “not at all sure that a reduction of 2 percent is right or sensible”; but finally backs it] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [“Monetary Affairs”] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Budget: MT notes (Budget Cabinet) [comments by individual ministers] [released 2013]
Text 81 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (Cabinet reaction to budget) [Prior strongly attacks but with little support]
PDF 81 Mar 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [report on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York - Carrington's copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [report on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (Reece warns MT to be ready) [Macmillan, Thorneycroft and du Cann will tell you to stand down in the summer]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott) [“Future Defence Policy”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Rates: Rifkind minute to MT (Scottish Conservative Conference debate on domestic rates) [“rates are… becoming an explosive political issue”] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says Wass & Ryrie opposed £1b extra tax in budget; Brittan and Howe agreed with their view that “you must not put interest rates down if you had to put them up again!!”] [released 2012]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott minute to MT (views of First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Henry Leach, on defence programme) [Leach disagrees with Nott's proposals] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 18 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: First Sea Lord minute to MT ("The Defence Programme") ["I am confident that you will at least spare two minutes to read this note...before you and your Cabinet colleagues consider a proposition to substantially dismantle the Navy"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 18 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Carrington-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Nott-Armstrong) ["Defence Programme"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 15 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Lawson MSS) Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe (“EMS”) [“should seriously consider taking the occasion of our presidency of the EEC to join the EMS”]
PDF 81 Jun 30 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Fearn minute to Ure ("Falkland Islands: Strategy Meeting") [draft record of meeting of FCO officials, Falklands Governor Hunt and UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Northern Ireland Office) Northern Ireland: MT meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary (record of conversation) [authorises communication with PIRA over hunger strikes] [declassified 2009]
PDF 81 Jul 18 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Woodfield) ["The Maze hunger strike"; contacts with hunger strikers] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Jul 18 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Northern Ireland Office) Northern Ireland: MT meeting/phone exchange with Northern Ireland officials & Secretary of State (record of conversations) [decision not to take further initiative on hunger strikes] [declassified 2009]
PDF 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Richard Allen memo for President Reagan (“Britain Drifts”) [declassified 2000]
PDF 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) MT: Hoskyns, Wolfson and Millar memo for MT ("Your Political Survival") ["The Blockbuster" memo - "Your own management competence, like that of most of your colleagues, is almost non-existent ... Your own Leadership style is wrong"] [released 2016]
PDF 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [plenary session: foreign affairs, international economy, industry, transport, energy, research and space, EC issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Northern Ireland, the Cancun meeting & foreign aid, European Community matters] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [state of play regarding Falklands dispute - Carrington copy of minute] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [state of play in Anglo-Argentine dispute] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Lawson MSS) Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe (“EMS”) [case for joining getting stronger]
PDF 81 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires letter to Fearn ("Falkland Islands Strategy") ["In effect, as I understand it, the decision is to have no strategy at all beyond a general Micawberism"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: President Reagan meeting with US Ambassador to London (possible Thatcher defeat) [declassified 1998]
PDF 81 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Drinks for backbenchers") [Dorrell letter; now gives assurances "he will NOT be joining the SDP"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: "Gang of 25" letter to Chief Whip (collective protest against government economic policy) [will vote against any measures "which deflate aggregate demand"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Social Services: Walters minute to MT ("Unemployment, Benefits and the Change from the 1950s to the 1970s") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 81 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Tuesday's Debate") ["disturbing note" from Jopling; 45 possible rebels] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Chief Whip minute to MT ("The Prime Minister") ["we are facing a very serious situation which we must discuss"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0034) [Reagan calls European leaders “chicken littles … let our Allies know ... we have long memories”] [declassified Oct 2004]
PDF 81 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow letter to MT (support & encouragement) ["a giant among pygmies"] [released 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 365 to FCO (0310Z) ("President Reagan's Visit") [Deaver suggests that "we had better drop the idea of a visit to the UK at this time"; Henderson doubts that "crying off at this stage would be understood in London"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Luce, Ros and officials) ["Anglo-Argentine Ministerial Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York, 26/27 February 1982"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (First Session) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Second Session) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Third Session) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Fourth Session) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Annexes) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 671 to FCO (0030Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Luce meeting with Enders] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 57 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [separate Argentine statement undercuts agreed communique - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 57 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [Argentine press comment on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 58 to FCO (1755Z) ("Falklands Talks") [Argentine statement following Anglo-Argentine talks in New York - Carrington copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1735Z) ("Falklands Talks") [further Argentine press comment following Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1735Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [MT: "We must make contingency plans"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 8 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") ["On her copy of Buenos Aires telegram no. 60 of 3 March the Prime Minister minuted: "we must make contingency plans""] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Mar 9 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1982 Budget (Howe 4)
PDF 82 Mar 9 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Budget: Walters notes ("Cabinet on Budget 1982") [views of Ministers on the Budget] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor Falklands flash telegram to FCO (1125Z) ("Illegal Landing on S. Georgia") ["shots fired Argentine flag hoisted notices in English changed to Spanish"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.2"M"/82 (c2100Z) (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [Costa Mendez to play for time with the British; reciprocity to be sought from US between Nicaragua & Malvinas issues] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina" - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.3"M"/82 (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to bring forward planning to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 72 to UKE Buenos Aires (2030Z) ("South Georgia") [compromise proposal to regularise presence of Argentine party at Leith - "ultimate effort of goodwill"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.4"M"/82 (c2215Z) (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 110 to FCO (1400Z) ("South Georgia") ["...growing impression that Costa Mendez has been less than honest with me and that, in fact, the Argentines have been playing us along"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 98 to UKE Tel Aviv (for Carrington PS) (2120Z) ("South Georgia") [two reports from secret sources of Argentine intentions; Anaya briefing to naval staff on 28 March saying incident was not contrived but had come "at a wonderful time"] [declassified Mar 2016]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: SIS UKE Buenos Aires signal to GCHQ (1640Z) (decrypted Argentine signal) [British Naval Attaché comments: "This looks serious and suggests a recce of an invasion beach on the West of East Falkland"] [declassified May 2023]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1055 to FCO (0310Z) (“Reagan statement on nuclear arms policy and East-West relations”) [“My goal is to reduce nuclear weapons dramatically”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Acting Chief of Defence Staff briefing for Nott (?before 1700Z) ("Falkland Islands") [updated military options before OD tomorrow; plus draft and criticism of it as too negative] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (2025Z) (intelligence reports Argentine navy preparing to invade) [MT asks Reagan to intervene with Galtieri] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 48 to Port Stanley (1825Z) ("Argentine Action Against the Falkland Islands") ["We now have reliable evidence that an Argentine task force will gather off Cape Pembroke early tomorrow morning ... You (and Buenos Aires) will wish to make your dispositions accordingly"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: NSC briefing for President Reagan ("Suggested Talking Points for Telephone Call to President Galtieri") ["Maggie is a very determined woman .... The use of force by anyone will be met by force on her part"] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO note for the record (c0100Z) ("Points arising from Ministers' discussion at No.10") ["as reported by Mr Ure" - decisions made] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency record of Reagan-Galtieri phone conversation (0034-0114Z) (Spanish original & transcript, with English translation) [Reagan fails to persuade Galtieri not to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013; this copy 2015]
Text 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (imminent Argentine invasion) [Reagan calls Galtieri; writes result to MT]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (0245Z) (Reagan phone call to Galtieri) [just spoken with Galtieri: "he left me with the clear impression that he has embarked on a course of armed conflict"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: President Reagan letter for MT (0245Z) (his conversation with Galtieri: situation in the Falklands) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0304Z) ("UK-Argentine confrontation - Secretary calls in Argentine Ambassador") [if force used "we will have to side with the British"] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0437Z) ("President's conversation with Argentine President") [use of force "would gravely compromise US-Argentine relations"] [declassified 2002]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Defence Department minute for Foreign Secretary ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: The Political Costs") ["hard to persuade people that the game was worth the candle" - MT's copy] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Defence Department minute for Foreign Secretary ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: the political costs") [Richard Luce's copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO note (c1200Z) ("Falklands") [British Antarctic Survey ship RSS Bransfield intercepts Falkland Island radio saying that 200 troops have landed: "We must accept this as confirmation of an Argentine landing" - MT's copy] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 15th (1830Z) (Falkland Islands) [decision to despatch Task Force] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Falklands: Hailsham diary (Argentina invaded the islands) ["Cecil Parkinson told me he was surprised at the invasion!!! He had been at the meetings y'day. ... One only (not me) for staying in port"] [released 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [transcript of Gow's notes] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1700Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [transcript; Mitterrand expresses support for MT] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.8"M"/82 (?2100Z) (English translation, Spanish translation & original) [decision to reinforce the Argentine garrison on the islands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2100Z?) (MT, King Hussein of Jordan) [seeks, and gets, Jordan's support for UN Security Council resolution] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Defence Staff briefing for Chief of Defence Staff ("The Falkland Islands Invasion") [update prepared for Lewin on his return from New Zealand] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1130Z) (MT-Falklands Governor Rex Hunt-Major Norman-Major Noott) [Argentine invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT note to ?Gow (appointment of new Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary) ["It was Francis or George Younger...I realise your worries"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lewin minute for Nott (afternoon) ("Falkland Islands: military appreciation") [military options reflecting views of Chiefs of Staff] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 174 to FCO (1326Z) ("Falklands and Time Scale of Argentine Intentions") ["we refused to face the fact that our encouragement of total intransigence from the Islanders involved a physical risk to them"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT notes made during conversation with Macmillan (c1500Z) (advice on handling the crisis) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to world leaders (1846Z) ("Falkland Islands: economic measures against Argentina") [urges support for measures to bring Argentina to act on Security Council resolution] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (further reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation; Labour and SDP reactions) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1169 to FCO (1835Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with Haig about Kirkpatrick - "Haig said that he had no words bad enough for that person. The trouble was that she had the ear of the White House. She was a complete disaster"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner meeting: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands - MT annotations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE London to State Dept (1700Z) ("Secretary's Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher April 8: Falkland Islands crisis") [MT: "impossible to be neutral in the face of unprovoked aggression"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1830Z) (MT-Haig) [dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (US decision to launch mediation; Haig's first visit to London) [MT: "Interim authority? - to do what?"]
Text 82 Apr 9 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram to State Department (0131Z) ("Memo to the President: discussions in London") ["The Prime Minister has the bit between her teeth"] [declassified 2000]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes (1400Z) (Spanish original, transcript and English translation) [1. Analisis de MALVINAS; 2. Analisis di mision secreta a CUBA; 3. Informe Ministro RR.EE; 4. Resolucion Comite Militar - "The US has done nothing for Argentina. Defends Mrs Thatcher"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0830-1000Z) (MT-Haig) [first meeting: discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1110Z) (MT-Haig) [second meeting: further discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1655Z) (MT-Haig) [third meeting: discussion of American draft agreement] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig shuttle back in London) [MT: "the fleet must steam on!"]
PDF 82 Apr 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0815Z) (MT-Haig) [discussion of further Argentine demands; Argentina moving closer to USSR; concerns about UK public opinion] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Robilliard note to MT ("Constituency Day Friday 21 May 1982") [MT would rather not agree to operate forklift at Michael Gerson Ltd. event given Falklands situation; "unless it has all been resolved by then"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1830Z) (MT-Haig) [full transcript of first call: dispute over British use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1900Z) (MT-Haig) [full transcript of second call: further discussion of UK use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chiefs of Staff directive to CINCFLEET COS 9/82 (Operation Sutton) [Planning Directive with appendix "Appreciation of the Options for Landing Operations in the Falkland Islands"] [declassified Oct 2018]
Text 82 Apr 16 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig in Buenos Aires again) [Haig: "a charade ... a f***ing charade - these guys are diddling me"]
PDF 82 Apr 17 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1930-1934Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan does "not think [MT] should be asked to go any further" in order to reach compromise] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 18 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (evening) (MT-Parsons) [possible UN resolution requiring UK Task Force to "drop anchor, to turn around, to hold off as it were, which obviously we couldn't accept"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jopling minute to MT (views within the Parliamentary party on Falklands crisis) ["no surrender" group, pro-negotiations group, fears about "military disaster", pro-UN group, anti-violence group] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 23 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: US draft of peace agreement (as of 23rd April) [Haig proposals delivered via Pym & unacceptable to MT] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 15th (1715Z) ("Diplomatic and Military Situation") [proposals brought back by Pym from Washington - agreed message to Haig urging him to put them to Argentina first] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 25 (Falkland Islands: Washington Discussion with Mr Haig) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Nott statement (recapture of South Georgia) ["The White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack"; annotated by MT] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (1322Z) (apparent rejection by Argentina of latest peace proposals) ["I cannot conceal from you how deeply let down [we] would feel if under these circumstances the U.S. were not now to give us its full support"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department paper for NSC meeting ("Next Steps on Falklands") [range of possible measures] [declassified 2002]
Text 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (Argentina rejects US plan) (extract) [will make clear UK "worked with us in good faith", acting on self-defence] [declassified 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2218Z) (position of US Administration given Argentina's failure to accept US proposals) [US "tilt" towards UK] [with MT annotations] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (2218Z) (Argentina rejects US peace proposal) [Argentina's refusal "to negotiate in good faith [has] made it necessary for the United States to adopt a new posture toward Buenos Aires"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: National Security Council minutes (1335-1430Z) ("South Atlantic Crisis") (NSC 0048) [US 'tilt' towards Britain] [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1145Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Conqueror Report of Proceedings (1857Z) [extract covering 2 May, including attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2006]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2036Z) (MT proposes US enact complete ban on imports from Argentina to US) ["with so many young lives at risk - British and Argentine - I feel that we must make a supreme effort to prevent a major military clash"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan urges MT to consider new US peace proposals) [need to seize chance for a peaceful settlement "before more lives are lost"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement...I believe there is now a chance to realise that aim"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: US National Security Adviser memo for Reagan ("PM Thatcher's Reply on your Falklands Demarche") ["In a word, Maggie accepts the proposal"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT draft letter to Reagan (MT: "The letter to Reagan that was never sent...") [US proposals not "faithful to the basic principles we must protect"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (negotiations with Argentina: Haig's proposals) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: MT letter for President Reagan (2030Z) (The Falklands conflict: Haig's latest proposals) [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [MT wants UN Secretary-General to visit London; MT: "it is going to be the most awful waste of young life if we really have to go and take those islands"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1740Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan asks MT to hold off military action, says US has sided with UK "at the price of its relations with Latin America"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: National Security Decision Directive (NSDD34) ("U.S. Actions in the South Atlantic Crisis") [measures arising from 30 Apr tilt] [declassified 1990]
PDF 82 May 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1335Z) (MT-Italian Foreign Minister Colombo) [difficulties for Italian government in continuing sanctions against Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (1100Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [Versailles Summit, EC mandate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 May 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (1215Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [lunch conversation: Middle East, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands & the Falklands War, East-West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 May 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy/Falklands: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("Italy and the Falklands") [detailed analysis of decision not to renew economic sanctions] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 82 May 30 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (1850Z) (possible delivery by France of Exocets to Peru) ["If it became known...that France was now releasing weapons to Peru that would certainly be passed to Argentina for use against us...this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 30 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (1850Z) (French supply of Exocet missiles to Peru; Peru passing Exocets on to Argentina) [if French supply of Exocets became publicly known "this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2230Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House record of telephone conversation (2300-2325Z) (Reagan-MT) [President calls MT urging ceasefire plan] [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT draft telegram to Galtieri (coming Battle for Port Stanley) ["On my side, grief will be tempered by the knowledge that these men died for freedom, justice, and the rule of law. And on your side? Only you can answer that question"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“President Reagan and the US budget debate”) ["I am sorry to go on about this"; urges MT to intercede with Reagan, to get interest rates down] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (Heads of Delegation “Falklands”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (“conversation between Heads of Delegation on the evening of Friday, 4 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Jun 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Reagan Public Papers Cold War: Reagan speech to the Houses of Parliament (1100Z) [external link]
PDF 82 Jun 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pattison minute to MT (British casualties on Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram: heated argument between Nott and Fieldhouse) ["C in C Fleet would like to leave open the idea that the casualty figures were considerably higher...this would help to confuse the Argentines"; "argument became an issue of confidence between the two men"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 12 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: No.10 note to MT (HMS Glamorgan struck by suspected EXOCET missile) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 14 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT notes of telephone conversation (2000Z) (MT receives news from Northwood of Argentine surrender and situation in Falklands) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 14 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT notes for Commons speech on Argentine surrender (2115Z) (report from Northwood of Argentine surrender and situation in Falklands) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Major General Moore message (0120Z) (surrender of Argentine forces in Port Stanley) ["The Falkland Islands are once more under the Government desired by their inhabitants. God Save The Queen"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Public spending: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT (“Long Term Trends in Public Expenditure”) [Public Expenditure Survey 1982 - cash planning] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (congratulations on victory in the Falklands) ["A just war requires a just peace"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Reagan telegram to Thatcher (victory congratulations & need for "a just peace") [declassified 2000]
PDF 82 Jun 19 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Falklands Governor Rex Hunt letter to MT (message of thanks) ["without your resolution, courage and singleness of purpose, victory would not have been achieved"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 27 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada letter to MT (message of congratulations) ["Throughout this crisis you have demonstrated both your strength and your integrity"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 2 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Parsons valedictory despatch ("The Falklands Crisis at the United Nations") [reflections by Sir Anthony Parsons] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT personal minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer - unsent (public spending, taxation, and growth) ["need to change the climate" of opinion to favour cuts in public spending & taxes] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Henderson Valedictory Despatch ("US Policy in the Falkands Crisis with some Valedictory Comments on US/UK Relations") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Aug 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Gow minute to MT ("Shuffle") [thoughts on MT's strength in Cabinet and reshuffle of junior Ministers] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Weinberger note of meeting with MT (Middle East; John Brown Engineering; Falklands) [declassified 1998]
PDF 82 Sep 20 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Tokyo ("Massacre of Palestinians") ["it looks as though the [Israeli] government intend to brazen matters out"; reactions in Israel; UK position on responsibility for the massacre; MT statement; extracts from Report of Israeli Judicial Commisson of Inquiry (Feb 1983)] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 22 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Premier Zhao Ziyang of China) [NATO, trade with USSR, Poland, arms control, Afghanistan, US foreign policy, Taiwan, Japan, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Middle East] [declassifed 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 23 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Premier Zhao Ziyang of China) [bilateral relations, future of Hong Kong, Guangdong Nuclear Project, trade, defence, consulates, technical co-operation] [declassifed 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping of China) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice Chairman Deng Xioaping of China) [future of Hong Kong] [MT's annotated copy] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: UKE Peking to FCO (MT and Deng agreed press line on future of Hong Kong) ["They agreed to enter talks through diplomatic channels following the visit with the common aim of maintaining the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong"] [declassifed 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (0945Z) (Carrington testifies - 1st time) ["much more sensible for them gradually to build up the pressure against us"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (1330Z) (Nick Ridley testifies) [leaseback not accepted "but there was every chance in due course it would have been"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (1445Z) (Ambassador Williams testifies) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 minute to MT (Pym “Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union”) [MT: “we have a major problem… shallowest paper I have ever read”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 5 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Luce testifies) [events Spt 1981-Apr 1982] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 15 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) [Pym & MT at odds over her intention to have a dedicated adviser on foreign, defence & intelligence matters, based in No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong letter to Acland ("The Falklands Crisis: Operational Lessons") [OD Secretariat report on "The Goverment Machine and the Falklands Crisis 2 April to 15 July 1982 An Assessment"] [declassified Aug 2015]
PDF 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (MT testifies) [invasion "the worst...moment of my life"] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (U.N. resolution unacceptable to UK) [summary declassified 2000]
PDF 82 Oct 28 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [immigration issues, allied defence cooperation, industry] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [recent developments in Poland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, arms control, Poland, East-West relations, Western alliance, defence issues, Falklands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [Spanish elections, Falklands, East-West economic relations, economic summit, EC economic and budget issues, Poland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["I am truly sorry that we disagree on this matter"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["we believe it reasonable now to vote for the substantially modified resolution"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to President Reagan (UN General Assembly Debate) [resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations; MT: "we are utterly dismayed by [US position]"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [US will vote for resolution] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [UK "dismayed" by Reagan's message: "A vote by the United States for the resolution would be received here with incomprehension"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [Reagan argues for keeping open possibility of "a solution by negotiations sometime in the future"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (defends US stance at UN) [declassified 2000]
PDF 82 Nov 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (vote on UN resolution) ["I realise that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (vote on UN resolution) ["an American decision to support Argentina against Britain"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["The British people would see your vote for this resolution as an American decision to...support a dictatorship against the home of democracy"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["I realize that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 12 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (reaction to death of Brezhnev) [agrees his view that "a more constructive East/West relationship is available" if new leaders "adopt a new approach"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Nicholas Ridley”) [“wonders whether you are displeased with him because of the Falklands matter”; if not in cabinet after next election wants EC Commissionership] [released 2017]
PDF 82 Dec 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Carrington testifies - 2nd time) ["I take it that I am the only person who is being criticised"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Carrington) [Franks "pretty wintery" in recall testimony; "very unfair" if he was the only person criticised by name] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Michael Jopling minute to MT (Whip’s office) [John Major “will be a considerable asset to the Whips Office”; MT comment: ‘Excellent’] [released 2017]
PDF 83 Jan 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1805Z) (Arms Control) (NSPG 0050) [general support for the zero/zero option for INF, President thinks "Maggie would go along"; Pershing not Cruise the missile the Soviets fear; portrayal of London blowing up too strong for the President's speech] [declassified Dec 2000]
PDF 83 Jan 18 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT's annotated text of the Franks Report ("Falkland Islands Review") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 19 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Franks) [final sentence narrowly related to Junta decision to invade on 2 April] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European Community issues] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF stationing problem, EC-US relations, world economic prospects] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Possible visit by representative of Hong Kong and Shanghai bank”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("A radical voucher scheme: Paper by the Secretary of State for Education and Science") ["entails radical changes in the law and some very difficult political choices... to give all parents financial power to choose a school and to bring about the greater diversity, improved efficiency and higher standards flowing from the exercise of that power"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 28 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT personal minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Mortgage Interest Relief") ["I couldn't disagree more with your paper on this subject"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, King, Parkinson, Armstrong, Mount) [Joseph paper on radical voucher scheme] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang (future of Hong Kong) [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1983 Budget (Howe 5)
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [personal account of her conduct of the war, handwritten text interleaved with transcript] [released 2015]
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015]
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, Community affairs, arms control, East-West relations, industrial cooperation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [defence sales, Argentina, French-German defence cooperation, cooperation with the US, East-West economic relations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: EC budget, disarmament, human rights] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Trade Secretary) [Stock Exchange and the Restrictive Practices Court - agreed to drop case in return for reform] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) City: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Trade Secretary, Governor of the Bank of England) [possible abandonment of Stock Exchange RPC case] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Butler minute to MT ("Election Contingency Plans") [plans for a 23rd June election; MT annotates and notes plan for 9th June election] [released 2013]
Text 83 May 18 We Declassified documents Key Conservative Party Conservative General Election Manifesto 1983
PDF 83 May 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: No.10 minute to Butler ("Ministerial Appointments") [MT's appointments list following General Election] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 29 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Armstrong record of conversation (MT, Howe, Reagan, Kohl, Trudeau, Mitterrand, Fanfani, Nakasone, Regan and others) [Williamsburg Economic Summit: plenary session] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation - To Recess") ["the bigger your majority - the more the media will seek to bring you down to earth and humble you" (MT ticks)] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 23 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Trade and Industry Secretary) [Stock Exchange case and the Restrictive Practices Court - confirms 6 May decision to withdraw the case in return for reforms] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 23 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) City: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Trade & Industry Secretary, Governor of the Bank of England) [confirms 6 May decision to exempt] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) City: Parkinson minute to MT (“Stock Exchange & Restrictive Practices Court”) [seeks permission to negotiate a settlement] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (Deng Xiaoping remarks to Hong Kong delegates at CPPCC/NPC) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Joseph, Walker, Jenkin, Tebbit, Parkinson, Cockfield, Lord Young, Walters, Mount, Armstrong) ["Employment Strategy Meeting at Chequers on 6-7 September"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) Cold War: Chequers Soviet seminar (minute of meeting) [declassified 2007]
PDF 83 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) International economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Leigh-Pemberton) ['Brazil'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 15 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Armstrong-Gregson-Scholar) [Ian MacGregor's strategy for coal, pit closures, redundancies, miners' pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Multi-National Forces in Lebanon] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [European Community, Greece, Italian economy, USSR, arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 17 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with Kohl: 21 September”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Parsons minute to Coles ("Anglo-American Relations") [argues for re-assessment of support for US policies in the Middle East and elsewhere] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European airbus, economic developments, European budget] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF deployment, defence issues, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan, then lunch plenary) [Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina; Middle East, economy] [declassified 2008]
PDF 83 Oct 4 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong”) [policy options on future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [defence disarmament, Allied cooperation, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Anglo-French Summit: East-West relations, arms control, Allied cooperation, Falkland Islands, Middle East, EC issues, British-French bilateral relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands, European issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [European Community issues, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Luce, MT-Whitelaw, MT-Heseltine) [response to proposals by CARICOM states for intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Howe draft statement to House of Commons (situation in Grenada) [MT annotation: "No reason to think that military intervention is likely to take place"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to MODUK ("Grenada: From Col Beaumont in Bridgetown for Cossec") [details of US intervention plan] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [MT draft message to Reagan: "In short, I have serious doubts about mounting a military operation"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada"] [released 2013]
Text 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thinking of intervening) [declassified 2000]
Text 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (decided to intervene) [declassified 2000]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 letter to FCO (“Grenada”) [record of No.10 meetings & decisions 24-25 Oct] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada; Reagan to MT: "We are already at zero"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (US intervention in Grenada) ["I well appreciate the dangers inherent in a military operation...but, on balance, I see this as the lesser of two risks"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (US intervention in Grenada) ["I well appreciate the dangers inherent in a military operation...but, on balance, I see this as the lesser of two risks"] [released 2013]

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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