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Text 62 Mar 1 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher HC S [Maternity Benefit (Mrs A.J. Carney)]
PDF 70 Feb 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Conservative Party) Conservative Party: Selsdon Meeting transcript (morning session) [‘rough’ transcript]
Text 71 Jul 14 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher HC I Report [Education (Milk) Bill]
Info only 72 Apr 25 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for BBC French Service
Text 73 Apr 1 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Trivial Margaret Thatcher Remarks visiting the Scilly Isles ("absolutely delightful")
Info only 73 Sep 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Nationwide
Text 73 Nov 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Trivial Margaret Thatcher HC I [Museum Charges (Opposition motion) (Faulds speech)]
CD only 75 Jun 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC2 Newsday
CD only 77 Jul 11 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama
PDF 77 Oct 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (discusses Keith Joseph with Whitelaw & Carrington) ["an albatross ... (m)ay bring us down ... attracts barmies"]
CD only 78 Jul 17 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama
CD only 78 Sep 27 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech to Carmarthen Conservatives
PDF 79 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Carrington PS to Michael Alexander ("Visit of Mr Muldoon") [EC, world economic issues, CHOGM, sport, French and US administrations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKE Lusaka to FCO ("Zambia/Rhodesia") [Rhodesian raids in Zambia] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Telvision Licence Fees") [proposal for part funding from advertising would be controversial] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: McQuillan minute to FCO Departments (BBC External Service cuts) [ministers want to protect World Service and broadcasts to Communist countries] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Bullard minute on BBC External Services (FCO proposals for cuts) [“Experience has made me suspicious of the BBC’s own figures”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gow minute to MT ("B.B.C. - External Services") [Ray Whitney MP writes to argue against cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cuba: UKE Washington telegram 2558 to FCO (0900Z) ("Soviet Ground Forces in Cuba") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Ian Smith”) [famine in Zambia, South African support for Rhodesian government] [released 2017]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [proposed cuts] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [FCO support for BBC Capital Expenditure Programme] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gladstone minute on BBC External Services (lunch at Bush House) [vital FCO/BBC be on same side next time; BBC to lay on “suitable claret”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 80 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: President Shagari of Nigeria letter to MT ("Zimbabwe") [South African presence at Beitbridge] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Middle East, Iran] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia) [post-Afghanistan situation and the US, Iran] [declassified 2014]
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 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: UKMIS New York telegram 297 to FCO (2057Z) ("Rhodesia") [Nyerere letter to Waldheim criticising British Government] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Panorama") [arrangements for interview] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Carrington minute to MT (“Gibraltar” ) [Lisbon Declaration negotiations] [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 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Alexander minute to MT ("East/West Relations in the Wake of Afghanistan") [FCO papers] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Vienna Quadripartite meeting (representatives of UK, USA, France, West Germany) [preparation for Venice summit] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Paris Quadripartite meeting (UK, USA, West Germany, France) ["Political Discussion at the Venice Summit"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jun 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rome 7-power meeting (preparation for proposed political discussions at Venice summit) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jun 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Venice summit (quadripartite meeting of representatives) [East/West relations] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("South African attacks into Angola") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (2335Z) ("The Republican National Convention, Detroit 14-17 July") [report on Reagan's endorsement as Presidential nominee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Carrington minute to MT ("Relations With Our Allies") [MT: "I am very worried about this paper. It is very flimsy and vague. It is a think-piece with the thought left out"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Aug 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: MOD letter to FCO ("COCOM: Control of Strategic Exports to the Soviet Union") [response to letter from US Defence Secretary Harold Brown] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Aug 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3779 to FCO (2345Z) ("Democratic National Convention, New York, 11-14 August") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Sep 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3979 to FCO (2330Z) ("US Presidential Campaign") [participation in first televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Sep 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran-Iraq War: FCO to UKE Belgrade (tripartite breakfast meeting) [UK-France-FRG] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO record of conversation (“Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors, Paris, 6 October”) [Iraq-Iran] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO to UKE Warsaw (“Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors, 27 October”) [discussion on Iran-Iraq] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President-elect Reagan letter to MT (thanks for her congratulations) [looks forward to another meeting] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO brief for European Council, Luxembourg, 1-2 December 1980 - EHG(L2)(80) 16 (Political Cooperation) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("Greece: Call on the Prime Minister by the Leader of the Opposition: 26 November") [points to make on security, economic crisis, future of Europe, relations with developing countries, NATO] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 80 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Poland: Contingency Planning") [contigency planning in case of use of force by Polish Government, indication that Soviet intervention imminent, Soviet intervention] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4879 to FCO (2055Z) ("The Reagan Cabinet") [appointees; biographies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Poland") [discussion of situation in Poland at Foreign Ministers' dinner: contingency planning for Soviet intervention in Poland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-French Foreign Minister Francois-Poncet) [Poland, Afghanistan, Uganda, Chad, EC, EC Budget, New Zeland butter and Australian beef] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bush minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Stocktaking Note: Matter for Ministerial Attention") [issues likely to come up for ministerial attention in first quarter of 1981] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jan 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO to No.10 ("Visit to Britain by President Reagan") [MT: "I think it would be very nice if it were a state visit - even without an open carriage ride"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jan 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 257 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Reagan's Government") ["some preliminary comments on the conduct of business, particulary foreign affairs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 286 to FCO (0050Z) ("Hostages: Washington Reception") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC planning for MT visit (dinner guests) [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) (“Caribbean Basin & Poland”) (NSC 0001) [preliminary discussion] [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Sherman paper for MT ("Potential snags in Anglo-American relations") [Reaganites since election "brutally differentiated themselves" from MT's government] [declassified 2010]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 0002) [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Italy/US: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Foreign Minister Colombo) [expressions of mutual regard; TNF; Italy as a "difficult democracy"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Handling of political questions at Ottawa summit") ["we shall need to consider what preparations should be made in advance"] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (“Essential Issues Papers”) [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Al Haig briefing for President Reagan (MT visit, with copy of her final schedule) [principal goal: "demonstrate publicly and privately that Mrs.Thatcher is the major Western leader most attuned to your views on East-West and security issues"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War & Caribbean: National Security Council minutes (1542Z) ("Caribbean Basin & F15s") (NSC 0003) [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February 1981") [complete set] [released Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC memorandum to Vice-President Bush (urges he meet Carrington whose “support (and restraint) will be critical”) [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department memorandum for National Security Adviser (“Paper for the NSC Meeting on El Savador”) [Interagency options paper, examining US and third country assistance] [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Adviser briefing for President (NSC Meeting 25 Feb) [Interagency options paper proposes only "initial quick fixes", need to "gear up for the longer haul"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC & British schedules for MT visit (drafts) [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT record of conversation (Macro-Economic Group) ["Budget Developments"] [declassified 2011]
Audio 81 Feb 26 Th Multimedia Minor Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher Conversation during press shoot (length of US election campaigns; noisy press cameras; art in the Oval Office) [audio]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan plenary) [East/West, Central America especially Belize; jellybeans] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 note of conversation (Reagan-Thatcher meeting) [plenary session] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 26 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Remarks leaving the White House
Text 81 Feb 27 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher & Ronald Reagan Exchange of toasts at British Embassy Dinner
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2130Z) ("El Salvador & Saudi F15s") (NSC 0004) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Folger minute to Unwin ("Budget: Letter to No 10") [summary of Budget decisions for MT] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Mar 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Prime Minister (American Visit)]
PDF 81 Mar 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 12th (Civil Service Pay Dispute) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Argentina: White House record of conversation (Vice-President Bush-Argentine President-designate Viola) [human rights; El Salvador] [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Mar 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2000Z) ("Sinai peacekeeping & Pakistan") (NSC 0005) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Mar 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Nigeria, Pakistan, Mexico, EC Affairs, Civil Service Pay Dispute, Defence Estimates 1981) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lankester minute to MT (“Effect of the Civil Service Industrial Action on the Central Government Borrowing Requirement”) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram 2090 to State Department (1310Z) ("President-designate Viola's private visit to the US - Assessment") ["most satisfied - very happy"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 81 Mar 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1002 to FCO (2311Z) ("Secretary Haig: crisis management") [report on Reagan's decision to allocate responsibility to Bush, and Haig's reaction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America/Africa: National Security Council minutes (1905Z) ("Poland, Nicaragua/Central America, Southern Africa") (NSC 0006) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to Vice-President Bush (thanks for photographs) ["What a happy visit it was"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action") [progress report on Civil Service industrial action] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Soames-Prior-Havers-Hayhoe-Armstrong) ["Civil Service Pay"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 14th (British Telecommunications Bill, Poland, Canadian Constitution, Belize, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Iran, United States, EC Affairs) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Haig message to Carrington (Soviet intervention in Poland) ["Our assessment of the Soviet posture regarding Poland suggests that an intervention by the U.S.S.R. is a serious possibility"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Minutes of Group on Industrial Action - GIA(81) 1st (Civil Service pay dispute) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East/Cold War/Central America: National Security Council minutes (1900Z) ("Haig trip to Mideast and Europe, Saudi AWACS, and Nicaragua") (NSC 0007) [declassified Jul 2010]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKA Washington despatch to Lord Carrington (“The Reagan Administration’s economic policy - an initial assessment”) [assesses content, prospects in Congress & chances of success] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 17 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Robert Conquest letter to Gow (comments on members of Reagan's Administration) [comment on resentment within the Administration at British attitudes] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service Industrial Action") [update on strike: Air Traffic Controllers taking industrial action] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1510Z) ("Theater Nuclear Forces - negotiations timing") (NSC 0008) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 May 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [decisions required on expenditure cuts: "We must expect a row in the House of Commons"] [declassified 2011]

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 are 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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