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PDF 73 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Heath (shadowing snake) [declassified 2004]
PDF 73 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Heath (Germans did not live up to expectations) [declassified 2004]
PDF 73 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Heath (shadowing snake begins) [declassified 2004]
PDF 78 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meeting with Germans) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meeting with French) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 May 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Washington with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Chancellor note to PM (Treasury briefing papers for EMS seminar) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Treasury off-the-record press briefing on EMS (“not the greatest thing since sliced bread”) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens to No.10 (briefing on David Blake article attributing scepticism to Treasury) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [government reaction “sharp”] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [account of events] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gordon Pepper) [summary] [budget & money supply] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Biffen papers for Cabinet] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-CBI) [Budget] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Chief Secretary) [budget plans] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Nigel Lawson letter to Michael Heseltine (“Disposal of Land and Buildings in the Public Sector”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury letter to No.10 (arrangements for briefing MPs on the budget) [response to request from MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: MT meeting with Chancellor & Governor of the Bank of England (record of conversation) [2 point MLR increase]
PDF 79 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (monetary situation) [need full two point interest rate increase] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: No.10 letter to Treasury (monetary situation) [MT accepts full two point interest rate increase] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: MT meeting with ministers (record of conversation) [mortgage rates - possible subsidy] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Goodhart) [HM Treasury ministers keen on MBC examination] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Prior (“Monetary Policy”) [direct control of credit no substitute for higher interest rates] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Shepherd note to Chancellor ("Industry Act Amendments: The Bray Schedule") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Battishill minute to Atkinson ("Industry Act Amendments: The "Bray" Schedule") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Shepherd note to PPS ("Industry Act Amendments: The "Bray" Schedule") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Battishill minute to Shepherd ("Industry Act Amendments: The "Bray" Schedule") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Lawson minute to Howe ("Forecasts: The "Bray" Schedule") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Wass minute to Howe ("Forecasts: The Bray Schedule") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury minute (“Target Variables”) [work with Bank on study of Monetary Base Control] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury minute (“Monetary Prospect”) [briefing for Chancellor - meeting with PM] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Note for the Record (MT lunch with Treasury ministers & Governor - record of conversation) [domestic monetary situation; exchange controls; sterling & EMS] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury note (of Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meeting with outside economists) [Medium Term Financial Strategy] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Economy: Treasury report for Chancellor ("Autumn Short-Term Forecasts") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Sir Ian Gilmour letter to MT (BBC External Service cuts) [cuts reduced by one third] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Minute on Bank Appointments ("Appointments: In Confidence") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Folger minute to Howe ("Industry Bill: Amendment to Repeal Bray Requirement") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Unwin minute to Howe [briefing for meeting with the PM] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Battishill minute to Howe ("Prime Minister, Monday 5th, 5.30 P.M.") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [economic assumptions & forecasts] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Rawlinson minute to Howe ("Meeting with the Prime Minister: Form of Public Expenditure White Paper") [addendum to brief for meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) ("Monetary Situation") [Howe's approval sought before circulation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Adam Ridley note to Chancellor ("Further Views" [on gilt strike]) [Goodhart & gilt-dealer's views] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor ("Conversation with Pepper") [gilt strike - MLR hike might not work] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury note (Bridgeman for Littler) [Monetary Policy] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [MLR increase debated, not agreed; urgent need to find new methods of controlling credit creation] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [Chancellor’s copy, as circulated in HMT] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Howe note to Private Secretary (further thoughts on last night’s meeting with Governor) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Hall minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") [MT "profoundly unhappy"; interest rates not working, new mechanisms needed] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Lawson minute to Biffen ("Public Expenditure 1981-82 - 1983-84: C(79)54") [bad outcome to spending round] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Bailey minute to Lawson ("Public Expenditure - Later Years") [rebuttal] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Rawlinson minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure Proposals for 1981-82 to 1982-83") [further cuts needed to achieve tax & interest rate objectives] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Bridgeman minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") ["rapid first draft" paper for MT] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Note to Chancellor ("Pepper again") [rumour that MT had been holding down MLR; critical of Bank of England] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Battishill minute to Howe ("Monetary Measures") [briefing for discussion with Governor] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe ("Monetary Measures") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Howe minute to MT and Treasury note on lending ("Alternative Methods of Direct Control Over Bank Lending") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Ridley minute to Howe ("Griffiths, Burns, Rose and Flemming") [notes on conversations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Minute to MT on Ridley conversations [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Ridley minute to Howe and summary of key points from interviews [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Prime Minister-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe ("Reflections on Friday's Meeting") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Unwin minute to Howe ("Thursday Announcements") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Howell minute to Howe ("PSBR 1979-1980") [concern at proposed bringing forward of PRT revenue] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Deputy Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Folger minute to Howe ("Briefing for 15 November Statement") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Howe minute to MT and draft statement ("Monetary Policy") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Unwin minute to Howe and statement ("Monetary Statement") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Folger briefing to Howe ("Monetary Statement: Briefing") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Ridley minute to Howe and redfrafted statement ("Statement") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Williams minute to Page ("Statement: Consumer Credit") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Sheridan minute to No. 10 ("Supplementary Figures for No. 10") [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Fforde to Governor of the Bank of England) [Lawson & HM Treasury on MBC] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Treasury minute to No.10 (MT Washington visit) [briefing for meeting with Fed Chairman Volcker] [declassified 2009]
PDF 80 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Medium Term Financial Strategy”) [minutes disagreement, copied to MT & Wass] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Roy Jenkins) [EC Budget] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (Peter Walker-Finn Gundelach) ["Sheepmeat, Fisheries and the Community Budget"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Foreign Secretary) [EC negotiations] [declassified 2010]
Text 80 May 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at Royal Academy Banquet
PDF 80 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [new Commission President, EC procedures, budget restructuring] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS note to PPS ("Meeting with the CBI") [link between pay, inflation and unemployment] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jun 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (proposed 5 per cent cut in real public sector pay) [“we are - perhaps - dangerously moderate in our counter-inflation policy”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Jun 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (‘Strategy’) [rejects Cropper proposal of 5 per cent real cut in public sector pay] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Jun 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Britton note to Burns ("Relative Interest Rates and the Demand for Money") ["tilting the yield curve"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jun 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Clearing Banks Chairmen) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jun 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Pepper and Forsyth") [cutting MLR] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Prior-TUC General Secretary Len Murray) [NEDC, North Sea Oil, oil prices, trade unions, public expenditure, unemployment] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lomax minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Morgan Grenfell's June Review: Exchange Rate Policy in the Eighties") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Middleton minute to Ryrie ("Short Term Interest Rates") [cut to MLR] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Short Term Interest Rates") [cut to MLR] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: HMT press statement ("MLR") [cut to MLR] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Middleton ("Growth of M1") [slow growth of M1] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to PPS ("Morgan Grenfell's June Review: Exchange Rate Policy in the Eighties") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Incomes, Inflation & Unemployment”) [“there really is not much difference in substance between us”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Britton minute to Lawson PS ("Growth of M1") ["M1 suggests that monetary conditions are very tight indeed"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Burns minute to Wiggins (briefing for Chequers luncheon with academic economists) [possible topic for discussion] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Peretz minute to Lawson ("Intervention in June 1980") [monthly report on Bank of England's intervention tactics] [declassified 2011]

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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).

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