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Text 87 Jun 12 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks returning to Central Office ("a big job to do in some of those inner cities")
Info only 87 Jun 13 Sa Chronology Key [Chronology] Reshuffle: five ministers left cabinet
PDF 87 Jun 13 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​MT: Charles & Carla Powell letter to MT (congratulations) ["All the same, I hope that you will not put yourself through it again"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Jun 21 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: MT speaking notes (acknowledging victory) ["More choice in education & housing / especially for those in inner cities"] [released Oct 2017]
Audio 87 Jun 25 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio]
Text 87 Jun 25 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on the Address]
PDF 87 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Community Charge: Katharine Ramsay conversation record (Conservative backbench Environment Committee) [Ridley defends poll tax; Heseltine, Gow, Young criticisms] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Jul 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Washington") ["The task is at least to disguise the weakness of American leadership and to restrain any inclination to erratic and ill-thought out initiatives"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Jul 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [MT meets academics at Chequers; enthusiasts vs sceptics] [released Oct 2017]
Text 87 Jul 17 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for CBS News (visiting Washington) (defending Reagan)
PDF 87 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Leigh Pemberton-Middleton) [Lawson urges 0.5 percent increase in base rates, with Bank support; MT rejects, issue should be revisited in August] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Jul 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No 10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley) [Ridley's "growing concern about opposition" to the charge; problem "increased by the decision to have a transition rather than to abolish rates immediately"; inclined to rethink some major aspects of the charge, which MT "discouraged firmly"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson urges 1 percent interest rate increase; MT "most unconvinced" but yields to his view] [declassified Jul 2016]
Text 87 Sep 10 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for The Independent
Text 87 Sep 23 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Woman's Own ("no such thing [as society]")
Video 87 Oct 9 Fr Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film]
Text 87 Oct 9 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Party Conference
Info only 87 Oct 19 Mo Chronology Key [Chronology] "Black Monday": Dow Jones fell 23 per cent
Text 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to President Reagan (concern at US deficit) [declassified 2007]
Info only 87 Oct 23 Fr Chronology Key [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 0.5 per cent, from 10 to 9.5 per cent, following Black Monday
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: President Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"; with supporting documents] [declassified 2007 & 2021]
Text 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"] [declassified 2007]
Text 87 Nov 16 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet
Info only 87 Nov 17 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Community Charge: "dual running" with rates abandoned
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [decision to abandon "dual running"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [Lawson's copy - note for future use MT stating no extra money] [released Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: MT interview for Financial Times [includes unpublished material on shadowing the DM] [released Oct 2017]
Text 87 Nov 20 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Financial Times
PDF 87 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Charles Powell minutes for MT ("Exchange Rate") [Chancellor leaning on Bank to intervene directly in DMs; MT asks "why intervene at all?"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [MT "expressed her very strong concern about the continued very large scale intervention needed to hold sterling below DM3"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 4 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [decision to 'uncap' the pound from Monday] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Rifkind minute to MT (paper on strategy in Scotland) ["level of support is dangerously low for the party of Government"] [released Jul 2018]
Text 88 Jan 25 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (announces NHS review)
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson proposed 0.5 per cent interest rate increase; MT agreed, subject to no intervention to check rise in sterling above 3DM] [declassified Jul 2016]
Info only 88 Feb 8 Mo Chronology Key [Chronology] Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan from May
PDF 88 Mar 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Gray minute for MT ("The Markets") [heavy intervention to hold down sterling against DM; options, including uncapping the pound] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Gray minute for MT ("Overnight Market Report") [further heavy intervention overnight to hold down sterling against DM; Lawson not wanting to uncap so near to budget; MT opts to meet with Lawson] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Mar 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Market Management" - Lawson accepts that rate should be allowed to move above DM3 on Monday if sterling still under upwards pressure] [declassified Dec 2016]
Info only 88 Mar 7 Mo Chronology Key [Chronology] Sterling `uncapped’ on MT’s insistence; rose above 3DM
Info only 88 Mar 15 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Budget
Text 88 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1988 Budget (Lawson 5)
PDF 88 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) ["Exchange Rate Policy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Education: Baroness Cox MP & colleagues letter to MT (Christian content of religious education) [proposed amendents to Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
Text 88 Apr 26 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview with Brian Walden for Sunday Times
PDF 88 Apr 26 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview with Brian Walden for Sunday Times [full transcript released Jul 2018]
Text 88 Apr 28 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to Centre for Policy Studies (AGM)
Audio 88 May 12 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs [audio]
Text 88 May 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 88 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Howe) [MT furious with Howe for raising EMS in his Perth speech; refuses his request for trilateral meeting with Lawson, tells him to keep quiet] [declassified Jul 2016]
Info only 88 May 17 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 0.5 per cent, from 8 to 7.5 per cent (lowest 1979-90); MT formula of support for Lawson at PQs
Audio 88 May 17 Tu Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs [audio]
Text 88 May 17 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 88 May 21 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: MT speaking text ("Speech to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Saturday 21 May 1988") ["it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong but love of money for its own sake"] [released Jul 2018]
Text 88 May 21 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ("The Sermon on the Mound")
Text 88 Jun 23 Th Declassified documents Key Lawson (Nigel) Economy: Tax Reform (The Government's Record) (CPC pamphlet)
PDF 88 Jun 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [market handling in light of bad trade figures; possible increase in interest rates; Lawson agreed need for "a period of significant tightening of policy", rates at 10 percent or higher] [declassified Jul 2016]
Info only 88 Jul 6 We Chronology Key [Chronology] Jacques Delors told European Parliament that in ten years 80 per cent of economic and social legislation would be made there rather than at national level
PDF 88 Jul 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) ["I want my visit to mark a step forward... I am convinced that a brief visit to Gdansk would capture the imagination of literally millions of people"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Markets" - intervention of over $600m) [MT wants interest rate rise "very early next week"; "HIS [Lawson's] REPUTATION IS AT STAKE"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 28 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters interview in Daily Mail) [told him he had to behave like a Trappist monk or "his return to No.10 would be in serious doubt"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) Europe: Stephen Wall minute (Geoffrey Howe’s criticisms of No.10 draft of MT Bruges speech) [“plain & fundamental errors”]
PDF 88 Sep 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) Europe: John Kerr to Patrick Wright (state of play on MT Bruges speech) [CDP “reasonably responsive” to view that too controversial a speech would meet rebuttals]
Info only 88 Sep 8 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Jacques Delors addressed TUC Conference & invited them to join "the architects of Europe"
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Alan Clark minute for MT ("The Bruges Speech") ["The speech is of crucial importance .... will signal our attitudes todevelopments in the Community both micro and macro over the next decade"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) Europe: Charles Powell to FCO (MT Bruges speech) [final draft - “PM now broadly content with it”]
PDF 88 Sep 15 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: Cradock minute for MT ("China: position of Zhao Ziyang") [rumours his position under threat, but UKE in Beijing thinks it remains strong; Cradock thinks reform likely to slow down] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) Europe: John Kerr (FCO) note for Patrick Wright (MT Bruges speech) [“looks as if our damage limitation exercise is headed for success”]
Info only 88 Sep 20 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] MT addressed the College of Europe (the "Bruges Speech")
Text 88 Sep 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech")
Video 88 Sep 20 Tu Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech") [film]
Text 88 Sep 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to the Royal Society (climate change)
PDF 88 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European Community: Extension of Commission powers and competence") [need to "be prepared to 'terrorise' the Commission politically on the lines of the Bruges speech"] [released Jul 2018]
Text 88 Oct 14 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Party Conference
PDF 88 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [MT visit to Gdansk, Polish internal situation, Solidarity] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Solidarity leaders, Father Jankowski, Cardinal Józef Glemp) [ninety seven minute meeting] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [East-West relations, UK-Polish bilateral relations, economy and trade, arms control, trade union reforms] [declassified 2016]
Text 88 Nov 14 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Colin Powell NSC briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: President Reagan briefing cards for MT visit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-President Reagan, tête-à-tête then plenary) [US deficit, Gorbachev, Latin America, START & Trident; Middle East, Soviets, Afghanistan, GATT] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 88 Nov 16 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speeches at White House State Banquet (MT & President Reagan)
Audio 88 Nov 22 Tu Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio]
Text 88 Nov 22 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on the Address]
PDF 88 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT ("An Independent Central Bank") [MT: "NO" - inflation not defeated] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 88 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Lawson (Nigel) Economy: Lawson minute to MT ("An independent central bank") [argues for] [published 1992]
PDF 88 Dec 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT refuses to consider an independent Central Bank until inflation reduced to "a very low level" and kept there, perhaps in four years] [declassified Dec 2016]
Info only 89 Jan 11 We Chronology Key [Chronology] NHS White Paper published ( Working for Patients )
PDF 89 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: President Reagan letter to MT (farewell) ["You have been an invaluable ally, but more than that, you are a great friend"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to Reagan ("you stood for all that is best in America") [declassified 2000]
PDF 89 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (farewell) [declassified 2000]
PDF 89 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (farewell) ["You have been a great President, one of the greatest, because you stood for all that is best in America"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to President Bush (congratulations) ["You bring to the Presidency enormous experience in Government which will be of immense value"] [released Mar 2019]
Info only 89 Mar 14 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Budget
PDF 89 Mar 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1989 Budget (Lawson 6) [Hansard extract] [218K file]
PDF 89 Mar 19 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Reshuffle") ["Your comments suggest that you may consider moving or even dropping the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 6 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018]
Text 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (National Security Archive) Cold War: Politburo discussion of MT-Gorbachev meeting (document from Gorbachev Archive) [“I like the independence of Thatcher”]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Role of local authorities") [MT "rather surprised" by Conservative County Council manifesto reference to no further significant structural reforms; was not consulted; requests meeting with Ridley and paper] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 29 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lubbers, Van den Broek, Ruding) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Environment: No.10 record of conversation ("Global Climate Seminar") [global warming 'likely'; "essential to tackle this problem"] [declassified Dec 2016]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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