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Info only 84 Dec 16 Su Chronology Key [Chronology] Gorbachev visited Chequers
Text 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Call by Prince Bandar bin Sultan on the Prime Minister") ["this meeting... could play a crucial role in recovering our chances on Tornado.... I hope that... [MT] can show... that we recognize that the main Saudi external preoccupation... [is] the Arab-Israel problem... [and the] need for the European Community to work on the Americans"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Powell speaking notes for meeting & lunchtime speech (MT-Gorbachev) [includes some MT notes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Chernenko message to MT (East/West relations and arms control) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell note to MT ("Gorbachev") [notes for MT speech at lunch; Marx joke: "If only Karl had made Capital...instead of just writing about it"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [private lunchtime conversation: trade, USSR economy, human rights, miners' strike, communism and free enterprise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [afternoon meeting: East/West relations, arms control, Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: General Secretary Chernenko message to MT (Anglo-Soviet relations and the arms race) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 16 Su Press Key Thatcher memoirs Cold War: The Gorbachevs visit Chequers [memoirs extract]
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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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