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PDF 90 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 letter to Law Officers Department ("Community Charge") [MT surprised at Solicitor-General's new advice that existing capping powers could be used so extensively] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) ["NHS Reforms" - Clarke convinced reforms had to be introduced next year; MT agreed, with reservations] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mandela) ["a successful meeting with an excellent atmosphere ... he expressed his views on the main issues in conciliatory terms"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
Info only 90 Jul 14 Sa Chronology Key [Chronology] Ridley resigned over comments on Germany; Lilley joined Cabinet to succeed him at DTI
PDF 90 Jul 14 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Ridley (Nicholas) Interview with The Spectator (“Saying the unsayable about the Germans”)
Info only 90 Aug 2 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Iraq invaded Kuwait; MT with Bush in Aspen
Info only 90 Aug 2 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] UN Security Council Resolution 660 condemns Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
PDF 90 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [uncertain response] [declassified 2012]
Text 90 Aug 2 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher & George Bush Joint Press Conference with President Bush (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait)
Video 90 Aug 2 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher & George Bush Joint Press Conference with President Bush (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) [film]
Text 90 Aug 2 Th Press Key Margaret Thatcher Gulf War: Visiting Aspen [memoirs extract]
PDF 90 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf ["It's fortunate that Mrs Thatcher is at Aspen"] [declassified 2000]
PDF 90 Aug 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [military options] [declassified 2000]
PDF 90 Aug 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (President Bush-Saudi King Fahd) [Bush: "We need your view on a US force presence [in Saudi Arabia]"; Fahd: "We think we have a few days to coordinate, to make a tight, successful plan"] [declassified Aug 2009]
Text 90 Aug 5 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Bush (George) Remarks by President Bush ("This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait")
PDF 90 Aug 5 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes [covert options; UN; Saudi Arabia] [declassified2000]
Text 90 Aug 5 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to the Aspen Institute ("Shaping a New Global Community")
Text 90 Aug 6 Mo Press Key Margaret Thatcher Gulf War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Washington [memoirs extract]
Info only 90 Aug 9 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] UK announced commitment of forces to the Gulf
Text 90 Sep 6 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Gulf Crisis]
Video 90 Sep 6 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Gulf Crisis] [film]
PDF 90 Sep 22 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute for Turnbull (Chancellor's statement on ERM entry) [MT "pretty indignant" with 'panic' statement and with Governor's reaction] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017]
Info only 90 Oct 3 We Chronology Key [Chronology] German reunification
PDF 90 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018]
Info only 90 Oct 5 Fr Chronology Key [Chronology] Britain joined ERM; announcement that interest rates would be reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent
Text 90 Oct 5 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference announcing decision to join the ERM
Video 90 Oct 7 Su Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on the Address] [film]
Info only 90 Oct 8 Mo Chronology Key [Chronology] Interest rates reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent
PDF 90 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017]
Video 90 Oct 12 Fr Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film]
Text 90 Oct 12 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Party Conference
PDF 90 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017]
Text 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Bush & Scowcroft memoir Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt]
PDF 90 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020]
Info only 90 Oct 27 Sa Chronology Key [Chronology] Rome European Council (ended 28 Oct)
PDF 90 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT, political union, Germany, EMU, EBRD, enlargement, Soviet Union, the Gulf, defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT; European political union; Germany; EMU; Turkey; EBRD; EC membership; USSR; the Gulf; Defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 90 Oct 30 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Rome European Council] ["No no no"]
Video 90 Oct 30 Tu Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Rome European Council] ["No no no"] [film]
Info only 90 Nov 1 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Howe resigned
PDF 90 Nov 1 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe MP (resignation)
Text 90 Nov 1 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe MP (resignation)
PDF 90 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Powell, General Scowcroft) [background for MT forthcoming talk with President Bush: Administration debates] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UK position paper ("Iraq/Kuwait: UK Position Paper") [Strategic Objectives, Military Objectives, Guidance to military commanders, Co-ordination with allies] [declassified Jul 2017]
Video 90 Nov 7 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on the Address] [film]
Text 90 Nov 7 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on the Address]
PDF 90 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting MT & Hurd) [declassified 1999]
Text 90 Nov 12 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet
Info only 90 Nov 13 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] HC: Howe’s resignation speech
PDF 90 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ingham note to MT (Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech) [text from which Howe spoke] [released Feb 2020]
Info only 90 Nov 14 We Chronology Key [Chronology] Heseltine stood for Conservative leadership
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Kenneth Baker memo to MT (Party Leadership contest: campaign strategy) ["your overriding theme should be Party unity, under your leadership"] [released Feb 2020]
Text 90 Nov 15 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Sunday Times
Text 90 Nov 15 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Sunday Telegraph
Text 90 Nov 17 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for The Times
PDF 90 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) [Kohl's "slightly heavy handed display of solidarity" over leadership election; MT wanting IGCs not to conclude 'rapidly'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Peter Morrison minute to MT (Party Leadership election) [lines to take] [released Feb 2020]
Info only 90 Nov 20 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Conservative leadership election first ballot (MT 204:152 Heseltine)
Text 90 Nov 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks outside the Paris Embassy ("I confirm it is my intention to let my name go forward for the second ballot")
Video 90 Nov 20 Tu Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks outside the Paris Embassy (“I confirm it is my intention to let my name go forward for the second ballot”) [film]
Audio 90 Nov 20 Tu Multimedia Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham press briefings (Paris Embassy) [after the first ballot] [released 2015]
Text 90 Nov 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham press briefings (Paris Embassy) [after the first ballot] [released 2015]
Text 90 Nov 20 Tu Press Key Thatcher memoirs Falling from power: Hearing the result of the first ballot [memoirs extract]
Info only 90 Nov 22 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] MT announced decision not to contest second ballot
Video 90 Nov 22 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government] [film]
Text 90 Nov 22 Th Press Key Thatcher memoirs Falling from power: Cabinet overboard [memoirs extract]
PDF 90 Nov 22 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Archive (TNA) Resignation: MT resignation statement (announces decision not to contest second ballot) [declassified 2016]
PDF 90 Nov 22 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Resignation: Gorbachev letter to MT (parting thoughts) [“very warm message”] [declassified 2016]
Text 90 Nov 22 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Written Statement announcing decision to resign as Prime Minister
Text 90 Nov 22 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Confidence in Her Majesty's Government]
PDF 90 Nov 23 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Charles Powell letter to MT (her resignation) ["the small men who contrived their petty coup"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Turnbull memorandum ("Prime Minister's resignation, 22 November 1990") [events 20-22 Nov] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Resignation: MT letter to President Gorbachev (parting thoughts) [“together we really did contribute to changing our world”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 90 Nov 26 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Kenneth Clarke (her resignation) ["Thank you so much for your kind and generous message" - "Stock 1"] [released Feb 2020]
Info only 90 Nov 27 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Conservative leadership election second ballot; Major became leader
Info only 90 Nov 28 We Chronology Key [Chronology] MT resigned as Prime Minister
PDF 90 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT and DT letter to Bernard Ingham (leaving No.10) ["My last act as Prime Minister must be to thank you"] [released Feb 2020]
Video 90 Nov 28 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks departing Downing Street [film]
PDF 90 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Resignation: President Bush letter to MT (regrets) ["your wisdom and determination"] [declassified 2012]
Text 90 Nov 28 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Remarks departing Downing Street
PDF 90 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Younger MSS) Leadership election: MT to George Younger (thanks for help & advice) [“What has happened is now in the past”]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2018]
Info only 91 Jan 16 We Chronology Key [Chronology] Air campaign launched against Iraq ("Desert Storm")
Info only 91 Feb 24 Su Chronology Key [Chronology] Ground war began in Kuwait
Info only 91 Feb 27 We Chronology Key [Chronology] Kuwait liberated; ceasefire
Text 91 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1991 Budget (Lamont 1) [external link]
Text 91 Jun 28 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN (recalls losing office)
PDF 91 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Major ("Inter-governmental conferences") ["FCO... assessment of what we might hope to achieve at Maastricht and what the main pitfalls for us are likely to be"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Inter-Governmental Conferences") [best achievable outcome at Maastricht; PM's broad agreement with Foreign Secretary] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Aug 19 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Statement and interview on events in USSR (coup against Gorbachev) ["an old-fashioned style attempt at a coup belonging to the Stalin and Brezhnev era"]
Text 91 Nov 20 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S [European Community]
Info only 91 Dec 9 Mo Chronology Key [Chronology] Maastricht European Council (ended 10 Dec)
Video 91 Dec 22 Su Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for HRT (Croatian radiotelevision) [urges international recognition of Croatia & Slovenia] [film]

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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