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PDF 90 Jun 17 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (Mandela phone call to MT) [asks her not to press colleagues at upcoming European Council to lift sanctions; MT afterwards said she was "a bit disappointed with Mandela, who seemed to have rather a closed mind"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Solicitor-General minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [judgments in capping cases, ability of government to implement policies] [released Dec 2016]
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)

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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