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PDF 72 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 menu ("Luncheon in honour of the Honourable Ronald Reagan Governor of California, and Mrs Reagan") [first meeting of MT and Reagan] [released 2003]
PDF 75 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ford Library) ​​​​​​​MT: White House memcon (President Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger, Deputy NSA Scowcroft) [Kissinger: "I don't think Margaret Thatcher will last"] [declassified 2004]
PDF 75 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ford Library) Cold War: White House memcon (President Ford, Brent Scowcroft, MT) [declassified 2004]
Info only 79 May 4 Fr Chronology Key [Chronology] MT appointed Prime Minister
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for new PM ("East-West relations") [top copy annotated by MT; other foreign policy and defence briefing] declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 989 to FCO (2226Z) ("The Outlook for U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy") [analysis; Presidential & Congressional elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Carter) [congratulates MT on becoming PM, "tremendous personal victory for you"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Carter letter to MT (foreign policy issues) [renewed congratulations; SALT II & Middle East] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 40 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“still great uncertainty”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Sino-British relations”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires airgram to the State Department ("The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands: A Political and Social Review") [predicts negotiations will eventually secure the islands for Argentina and end "Britain's admittedly anachronistic colonial rule"] [published 2015]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Brown, Pym) [nuclear, Middle East, China] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT telegram to President Carter (foreign policy issues) [interim reply] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT to Lord Chalfont (future of Washington Embassy) [“So much will depend on our future relations with the Carter Administration”] [released 2017]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Talk with Dr. Brzezinski”) [John Hunt: nuclear policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1235 to FCO (2152Z) ("President Carter") [report on indictment of Bert Lance & the ramifications for Carter] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 42 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“entering sustained period of slower growth”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1396 to FCO (2305Z) ("Rhodesia: Presidential Determination") [text of statement by President Carter outlining his reasons for being unwilling to lift sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Defence sales to China: future policy”) [reactions of COCOM partners] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's Call on King Hussein") [Carrington, Hussein: Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; Lebanon; Oman; sale of British tanks to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Carter (foreign policy issues) [SALT II, South Africa, Middle East, Tokyo G7; including drafts] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Pym, Gilmour, Hurd, Abdelhamid Sharaf, Sharif Zeid bin Shaker, Jordanian Ambassador, John Moberly) [MT account of meeting with Prime Minister Begin; Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; Egypt/Saudi Arabia; Soviet intervention in Middle East; Lebanon; sale of British tanks to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia") [Senator Helms' request for a private meeting with MT, ostensibly on the authority of President Carter] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to President Carter (SALT II, CTB, Middle East, G7, Vietnam) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with President Carter”) [Economic Summit, Tokyo] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1668 to FCO (1515Z) (“Farewell call on President Carter”) [UK ambassador Peter Jay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1740 to FCO (0420Z) ("Rhodesia") [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Quadripartite Breakfast - record of conversation) [US, UK, France & West Germany] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 3) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 4) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit Communique (“Declaration: Tokyo Summit Conference”) [including statement on Vietnamese boat people]
PDF 79 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Senator Jesse Helms on the Prime Minister, Wednesday 4 July") [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jesse Helms, John Carbaugh) [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: John Carbaugh letter to MT (Meeting with Senator Helms) [Helms' assistant conveys thanks to MT for meeting with Helms; Rhodesia; Salt II; request that MT meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms and Mr. Carbaugh") [MT concurs with Helms that US oral assurance over SALT II are insufficient; unwilling to take up his proposal to meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“British nuclear test programme”) [implications of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 43 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“likelihood of recession this year”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1910 to FCO (2007Z) ("US Political Scene") [report on Domestic Summit at Camp David; speculation on outcomes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms") [MT agrees to details of her recent conversation being shared with UK Ambassador Henderson, following divulgence of details to US press, despite No. 10 requests to FCO for confidentiality] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“Defence sales”) [reactions of COCOM partners] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1971 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Carter's Speeches") [analysis; "marks a strong effort to reverse his own political decline"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1972 to FCO (0035Z) ("President Carter") [Cabinet resignations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nott letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Policy on Film Finance") ["The interest in this subject, and the potential political difficulty if we mishandle it, is disproportionate to the amounts of money involved... I enclose the text of a statement which I should like to make"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2006 to FCO (1557Z) ("US Political Scene") [report: "looks very much as though this episode of the [entire Cabinet] resignations has added to the lack of confidence in Carter's administration"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 2058 to FCO (2202Z) (Carter praise for MT) [thanks to her initiatives Tokyo Summit succeeded] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") [MT: "Please don't dash into recognition yet [of the new government]"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 79 Jul 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2122 to FCO (1955Z) ("US Government") [Cabinet reshuffle: appointees] [declassified Jan 2014]

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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