Search

Search

Subject: British relations with the US. Importance levels: 1-Key, 2-Major.

Refine this search

Browse PM’s files

Showing items 1 - 100 of 6095.
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) 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) 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: 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) 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) 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) 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]
PDF 79 Jul 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Nicaragua") [MT "belief that we should not rush into recognition of the new Nicaraguan government"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 79 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO telegram to MT via UKHC Lusaka (“US defense budget”) [“higher inflation levels than originally estimated”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Department of Industry briefing for MT ("Sir Lawrence Kadoorie") [trade and industrial contracts with China] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Lawrence Kadoorie) [trade and industrial contracts with China] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Sir Lawrence Kadoorie (developing trade links with China: discussions with Exxon) [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2335 to FCO (2140Z) ("President Carter and Andrew Young's resignation") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: Bryan Cartledge to FCO (Mrs Sharansky phone call) [hunger strike over husband’s imprisonment, can MT make a plea to Brezhnev] [released 2017]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT ("Robert Conquest") [Conquest paper on US/UK misconceptions about Soviet motives; MT agrees with Carrington proposal for seminar for experts on Soviet affairs, and requests Joint Intelligence Committee study on current thinking and outlook of Soviet leadership] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 79 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 46 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“not very encouraging”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [stresses urgency of need for sanctions to be lifted if Muzorewa Government is not to fall] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2657 to FCO (0002Z) ("Senator Edward Kennedy") [consideration of candidacy for the Presidency] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Caroline Stephens note to Michael Alexander (John Carbaugh, Assistant to Senator Jesse Helm: request for meeting with the Prime Minister) ["will not take no for an answer"] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Note of a Discussion with Dr J Lucier and Mr J Carbaugh (Assistants to Senator Jesse Helms) on 14 September at 1100 hours at No. 10") [Michael Alexander, Lucier, Carbaugh: Rhodesia; Chile; Cuba/Salt II] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Chile") [restoration of Ambassadorial relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“Nuclear warhead programme”) [“major problems of resources”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“MISC 7: future of the United Kingdom strategic nuclear force”) [discussions with US] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Ambassador Brewster) [Rhodesia] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Abdelhamid Sharaf, John Moberly) [Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; sale of British tanks] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT ("King Hussein's Call on the Prime Minister") [sale of British tanks to Jordan; Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine/Lebanon] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO Rhodesia Department minute to FCO Permanent Under Secretary of State PS ("Rhodesia: Senator Helms' Staff") [agreement of press statement, and UK concerns addressed, following US press leak] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO Rhodesia Department minute to PUS PS ("Rhodesia: Consultation with the Americans") [background to a US press report of an alleged UK Government complaint about the activities of Senator Helms' staffers] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Eliot Janeway) [Democratic/Republican Presidential candidates; PLO; Rhodesia] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2948 to FCO (2330Z) (“U.S. wage and price policy”) [“fighting inflation is top priority”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor - Thursday 4 October") [IMF/World Bank meetings: SDRS; NEDC membership; Enterprise Zones; exchange control; mortgage rate increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor - Thursday 4 October") [Howe's report on Commonwealth Finance Ministers & IMF/World Bank meetings; SDRs; world economic assessment; NEDC membership; enterprise zones; exchange control; mortgage rates] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“Amendment of the 1958 US/UK nuclear defence agreement”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington letter to No.10 (background to Senator Helms' alleged intervention in the Rhodesia conference) [character analysis] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Senator Helms (Rhodesia Conference) [outline of UK position] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Brezhnev letter to MT (Berlin speech proposals) [“we do not seek military superiority”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris replacement: Dr. Aaron’s visit”) [Wade-Gery, David Aaron] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Carter (modernisation of the UK nuclear strategic deterrent) [replacement of Polaris] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 minute to MT (death of President Park Chung Hee) [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 79 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Secure telephone link to the White House") [offer of free US loan of equipment to UK, France and West Germany] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Soames, Keith Joseph, Giscard d'Estaing, Francois-Poncet, Giraud, Sauvagnargues) [US Presidential candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Tonga: FCO briefing for MT ("Courtesy Call on the Prime Minister by the King and Queen of Tonga at 16.15 on 4 December") [background; brief on UK aid; personality notes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Tonga: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Tupou IV) [oil in Tonga's off-shore waters; Cambodia; relations with China and Taiwan; Vietnamese refugees; Tongan economy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future of the strategic deterrent”) [“key decision… will affect our… defence over the next 40 years”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Replacement of the Polaris”) [US Deputy National Security Adviser visit to UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future of the strategic deterrent”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4134 to FCO (2314Z) (“Summary of monthly economic report for the U.S.”) [“possibility of a recession”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Belize: FCO letter to No.10 ('Belize') [re-election of Price Government seeking early independence with multi-national defence guarantee, to "a very large degree" British aim also; Guatemala and US however prefer status quo "with British troops on the eastern flank of Guatemala"] [declassified 2018]
PDF 79 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Visit to Washington - 17th December 1979 future of the United Kingdom nuclear deterrent”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr. Harold Brown) [Sino/Soviet relations] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Harold Brown, Frank Cooper, Robert Komer, others) [meeting with US Defense Secretary: UK defence policy; Soviet defence budget; Western allies' defence budgets; Soviet education & technology; chemical warfare; defence technology specialisation in NATO; naval strength; Western naval presence in Caribbean; USSR/China; Middle East/Asia; Oman; Diego Garcia; AV8B aircraft; US/UK defence contracts] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT plenary meeting with President Carter) [Iran, Rhodesia, Middle East, energy, Northern Ireland, defence] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT restricted meeting with President Carter) [Diego Garcia; China; Cambodia] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Carter, Vance, Brzezinski, Lord Carrington) [“The successor to Polaris”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Chile") [restoration of Ambassadorial relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 4301 to FCO (2300Z) (analysis of MT visit) [Carter’s “inner conviction that Britain, through its Prime Minister, is his soundest international partner”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 80 Jan 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Saudi Arabia foreign policy") [Soviet invasion of Afghanistan] [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.

Legend

  • Full Text Full text on site
  • PDF PDF
  • Photo Photo
  • Video Video
  • Audio Audio
  • Info Only Info only (no text available)
  • CD Only Text on CD only