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PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1452 to FCO (1959Z) ("Falklands and the OAS") [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (2010Z) (Falklands)
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (briefing for MT's Panorama interview) [the "disappeared" in Argentina, possible action by the OAS] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hoskyns minute for Ingham ("Panorama Interview: Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Hoskyns minute to Ingham ("Panorama Interview: Falklands") [important to get tone right: "This is not a battle for our homeland and civilisation..."Ring out the bells" brings us to the edge of black farce for the South Georgia operation"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: GCHQ intercept of Argentine signal (2132Z) ("Tanker Medanos ordered to return to port - 25 April") ["return to Puerto Belgrano immediately"] [declassified May 2023]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1465 to FCO (2242Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Haig reports on his speech at the OAS; "He had spoken to Costa Mendez and told him that time had run out"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Trip to Ankara and Athens on May 13-16, Buckley Meeting in Paris a Success, UN General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Palestine") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 569 to FCO (2312Z) ("Falklands: NAM Communique") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 322 to FCO (2315Z) ("Possible Mexican Initiative: Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 570 to FCO (2345Z) ("Falkland Islands in the UN") [developments in the UN: Secretary-General's call for "escalation of the situation" to be halted; pressure for UN peace initiative "is mounting"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT letter to Habib Chatty (Death Sentences in South Africa) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter to President Kyprianou (missing persons) [“I remain convinced that the Committee is the correct vehicle for tackling this serious problem”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cyprus: MT letter to President Kyprianou of Cyprus (missing persons in Cyprus) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Samoa: MT letter to Prime Minister Kolone of Samoa (congratulations on election) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Services Pay") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Vereker minute to MT ("Public Service Pay: Your 27 April Meeting") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Michael Jopling minute for Norman Fowler (“In Vitro Fertilisation: Possible Enquiry into Medical Ethics”) [shouldn’t emerge until after the next General Election] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Vereker minute to MT ("Cabinet 29 April: Index linked pensions") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: MT letter to President Kaunda of Zambia (International Development Association and the World Bank) [other nations to follow UK lead in making larger proportion of grant contribution available] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: MT letter to President Kaunda (International Development Association) [funding] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Patrick Jenkin (Radio Frequency Review) [picture that has emerged is gloomy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Nationalised industry draft objectives”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Telephone Rental Charges and Pensioners") [MT still in favour of reduced standing charge coupled with reduced local call time per unit; agrees to delayed decision pending strategic review of policy options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Ministerial committee on economic strategy: sub-committee on telecommunications policy”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 (“European Community representation at the Versailles economic summit”) [protocol and international monetary system] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("World Bank general capital increase") [implications for UK's position in the IMF] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [talks with Pym; memo to PM on indexed pensions; splendid performance on Panorama][released 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CTF317.8 signal to CTF324.3 (2338Z) (SSN ROE) [wants SSNs permitted to attack carrier if its aircraft launched attack on Task Force] [declassified Feb 2019]

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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