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Text 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Peru: Carrington PS minute to Michael Pattison ("Peru: Presidential Inauguration") ["The landslide victory won by President Belaunde augurs well for strong and stable government"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Parkinson PS letter to Michael Alexander (Visit of Mr Trudeau) [US extraterritorial jurisdiction] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Build Up of Soviet Forces") [report/analysis/advice] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Howell minute to MT ("Organisation of the electricity supply industry") ["The essential criticisms of the industry have been that co-operation between the generating and distribution Boards was difficult and cumbersome and that the [Central Electricity Generating Board] was too isolated from the distribution side and unaccountable... I have now completed my consultations... I have received assurances of commitment to my policy... have [also] considered whether there was scope for increasing the part played by private generation in electricity supply"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to Association of First Division Civil Servants (Government's response to Top Salaries Review Body recommendations) ["Your views have been noted... Our prime objective is to reduce inflation"] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Soames, Channon, Sir Ian Bancroft, Council of Civil Service Union representatives) [Top Salaries Review Body recommendations: Government stance causing "crisis of morale" according to CCSU] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("TSRB - Cabinet") [Top Salaries Review Body recommendations; Hoskyns outlines Government's case for curbing MP salaries in line with others: risks of uncontrollable "inflation... higher unemployment, much greater recession"] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("TSRB Report") [MT meeting with Council of Civil Service Union representatives to discuss Top Salaries Review Body recommendations] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Callaghan) ["European Commissioners": portfolios; Labour Party candidates; federalism] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community Affairs") [Budget; Presidency; Turkey; education; environmental issues; talks on fisheries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary memo circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 37 (The Pay of Ministers, MPs & Senior Public Servants: Top Salaries Review Body Reports 14 & 15) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (weekly report on market conditions) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Lankester minute to MT (meeting with Lord Hailsham on Employment Bill) [MT agrees to reject amendments to Clause 17] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Budapest to FCO (“Implementation of the UN Covenant on Civil & Political Rights”) [human rights in Hungary “on paper, perfect”, after their own lights] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Ian Gow notes (meeting with peers on trade union reform) [discussion of Employment Bill] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Employment Bill") [clause 17, secondary industrial action] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: MT-Prior-peers meeting (list of attendees) [Employment Bill] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: MT-Hailsham meeting (record of conversation) [Employment Bill clause 17] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Prior PS letter to Lankester ("Employment Bill: Clause 17") [draft letters to lawyers] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Prior minute to MT ("Codes of Practice on Picketing and the Closed Shop") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Sanders note to MT ("Employment Bill: Lord Soames") [Soames "very worried"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury note to No.10 ("Presentation in the Public Expenditure Survey of the UK Contribution to the Community Budget") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("The Economic Prospect (C(80) 35)") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Joseph minute to MT ("Compensation for Aircraft and Shipbuilding Nationalisation") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Alan Newman letter to MT (Alan Newman Ltd liner conversion contract) [shipbuilding] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(80) 17th (UN Law of the Sea Conference, UK Territorial Sea, Falkland Islands, Olympic Games) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Stevas letter to MT (MPs pay and allowances) [Stevas has considered resigning over the issue] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Employment Bill: Clause 17") [response to criticisms of clause 17 (secondary action) by Stebbings, President of the Law Society, and Peter Taylor QC] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: HMT letter to No.10 ("Presentation in the Public Expenditure Survey of the UK Contribution to the Community Budget") [MT: "We must discuss. I just can't accept these interpretations"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-European Democratic Group members) [EC Budget, CAP, trade, aid, energy] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Iain Sproat MP (thanks for flowers) ["they are quite breathtaking - a few days of the most wonderful luxury"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Swraj Paul) [UK-India relations, UK media criticism of India, Indo-British Exchange Conference, Prince of Wales' visit to India, India-USSR relations, Sanjay Gandhi] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Text of statement by Humphrey Atkins to the House of Commons ("The Government of Northern Ireland") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 ("Prospects in Ireland") [current political situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Top Salaries (C(80 37)") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Hoskyns minute to MT ("TSRB - Cabinet") [MPs' pay and expenses] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Post Office: Lankester minute to MT ("Postal Monopoly") [Joseph's review of the Post Office's postal monopoly] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Hastie-Smith briefing for MT ("Charter Flights for the Olympic Games") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Department of Trade letter to No.10 ("Charter Flights for the Olympics") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Jeddah ("Afghanistan") [message from Carrington to Habib Chatty; "the Islamic countries should retain the initiative in efforts to seek a solution to the problem caused by the Soviet invasion"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [FCO line on supply of arms to the resistance movement in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lankester minute to MT ("MLR") [Chancellor of the Exchequer and Governor of Bank of England yet to decide whether to cut 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 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Ingham minute to MT ("Polaris Successor - Announcement") [acquiring Trident] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Joseph minute to MT ("Possible Transfer of BL from the NEB's Responsibilities") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Note for Wednesday meeting (weekly report on market conditions, official activity and rates in the gilt-market) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government buildings: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“International Conference Centre”) [division over Broad Sanctuary site proposal] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Cabinet Office efficiency savings) [declassified 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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