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PDF 80 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell PS letter to No.10 (BNOC: oil prices proposal) ["2-tier price if all the African producers increase their prices"; MT requests further advice on arbitration] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT (“British nuclear test programme”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Brezhnev’s statement”) [condemnation of US foreign policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 223 to FCO (2320Z) (“US economy”) [“recession had in fact begun”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris successor”) [Robert Armstrong, Zbgniew Brzezinski] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("UKCS crude oil prices") [MT goes against Howe advice to avoid risking arbitration & potential ensuing higher prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by King Hussein on the Prime Minister on 23 January") [Regional stability; Afghanistan/Soviet Union; Arab/Israel dispute; sale of tanks & aircraft; Rhodesia; Iraq and Syria; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Oman & the Gulf; oil] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Ray Whitney to Geoffrey Howe (US-UK relations) [“there is a widespread fear among the incoming Administration of being ‘Thatcherised’”] [released 2017]
PDF 80 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 343 to FCO (2358Z) (“Treasury Under Secretary Solomon”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Lord Carrington, John Moberly) [Iran/Afghanistan & Soviet motives; Arab/Israel dispute; Iraq and Syria; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Oman & the Gulf; oil] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 note to MT ("Sakharov") [background to his recent arrest] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 80 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 5 to FCO ("US Presidential Election Campaign: Senator Edward Kennedy") [report on Washington speech designed to relaunch troubled campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Afghanistan: forward planning: China”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to H. Hornsby (credit support for trade with the Soviet Union) [clarification of UK policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell minute to MT ("Oil prices and import targets") [Iranian prices; UKCS prices; import targets] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Saudi internal") [report on "another violent incident in Qatif... anti-American feeling"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 642 to FCO (2145Z) (“Reactions to the US budget for FY 1981”) [“little enthusiasm”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Teelock) [Mauritian economy/politics; Diego Garcia; Afghanistan; Rhodesia; British Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 7 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Carrington letter to No.10 (“Proposed Naval visit to China”) [“in keeping with our improved relations”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Cabinet Office letter to Chancellor of the Exchquer PS (relieving the pressure on mortgage rates) [proposal for financial institutions to pay interest on borrowed money in order to lend tax free to members] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Yalta Victims Memorial") [proposed amendment to wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: No.10 (partial) record of conversation (MT, Lord Carrington, Cyrus Vance) ["Saudi Arabia"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: MT letter to Lord Bethell (Memorial to the Victims of Yalta) [wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Future United Kingdom Defence policy”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Saudi/West relations") [Ambassador Craig, Prince Fahd record of discussion: Palestine] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Heseltine letter to Lord Bethell ("Memorial to the Victims of Yalta") [disagreement over wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Afghanistan: controls on the transfer of technology to the Soviet Union”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Defence sales to China”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“Polaris successor”) [UK/US co-operation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 11 to FCO (“US economic problems”) [“crisis stage”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Heseltine letter to Lord Bethell ("Memorial to the Victims of Yalta") [disagreement over wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 968 to FCO (2347Z) (“US economic problems”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Heseltine PS letter to Peter Blaker PS ("Inscription Proposed By Yalta Victims Memorial Appeal Steering Committee") [disagreement over wording] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community affairs") [Budget; EMS; Turkish application for membership; German challenge to UK restraints on US synthetic textiles imports] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: FCO briefing for MT (Saudi Arabia) [MT dinner with Speaker, "when she will meet with Shaikh Yamani": points to make; essential facts; biography; guest list] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1190 to FCO (0435Z) (“President Carter’s anti-inflation package: initial reaction”) [not well received] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO letter to No.10 (reply to Carter letter announcing economic package) [reducing inflation and oil consumption] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris replacement”) [Wade-Gery, David Aaron] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 ("Policy Towards the Soviet Union") [FOC paper 'The Prevention of Soviet Expansion in the Developing World"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 80 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Polaris replacement”) [negotiations with US] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Harry Boyne note to Richard Ryder (US Ambassador) [“H.E. is continuing his practice of meeting trade union leaders over lunch”] [released 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris replacement: Komer negotiations”) [Robert Wade-Gery, Frank Cooper, Robert Komer] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Gilmour letter to Pym (“Defence sales to China and COCOM”) [US interests] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Ponomariev”) [speech expressing hostility to US & UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1589 to FCO (2045Z) ("US Presidential Campaign: Pennsylvania") ["seen as a last chance for Kennedy and Bush to stem the tide running in favour of Carter and Reagan"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Conversation with Mr. Carbaugh at 10 Downing Street on Thursday 24 April 1980") [Michael Alexander, John Carbaugh: US defence policy; request that MT make case in Parliament for increased defence expenditure; Rapier programme; Republican nominee: request that MT meet with Reagan to support his campaign; funds for Reagan campaign; Namibia] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“British underground nuclear test”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("TV film") [Saudi reaction to 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Message for Prince Fahd") [accusation of UK media bias, exemplified by recent 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary; UK/Saudi relations] [declassified Aug 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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