Search

Search

Date: 13 Sep 1985.

Refine this search

Browse PM’s files

Showing items 1 - 28 of 28.

  • Previous
  • Next
Info only 85 Sep 13 Fr Chronology Minor [Chronology] 24 Soviet diplomats expelled from UK (retaliation 14 Nov)
Text 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Enterprise Allowance Scheme”) [unemployment qualifying period] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT minute to Heseltine ("R & D priorities across Government") ["...MISC 110 should be invited to undertake the further work suggested by the [Ministerial] Group... subject - of course - to general acknowledgement that you are not committed at this stage to... reduction in Government-funded defence R&D..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT minute to Whitelaw ("R & D priorities across Government") [membership and remit of the Ministerial Group on research & development, with emphasis on key roles of Brittan and Heseltine; and on key issues of integrating defence & civil industry R&D, and remedying failure of private sector to innovate adequately] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Baker paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (85) 4 ("Second Specification Report") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Secretaries paper circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 4 ("Second Specification Report") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to No.10 ("Birmingham Riot/Policy Unit Report and Analysis") [Handsworth riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Handsworth Riot") [information on Birmingham riots and implementation of the Scarman Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Charles Powell minute to No.10 Policy Unit (tackling the drug problem: David Mellor's visit to Pakistan) [MT's views on Hurd/Mellor proposal that Hartley Booth accompany Mellor, and Policy Unit suggestion that Booth should take soundings about Extradition Treaty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Inter-Governmental Conference") [report on first meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letters to Rev. Ian Paisley MP and Jim Molyneaux MP (Anglo-Irish talks: response to joint letter) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wicks minute to MT ("Strategy for the Coal Industry") [suggested procedure for carrying forward Chancellor of the Exchequer's strategy proposals 'even if Mr. Walker did not back them'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("The Oil Market") [warning of change in Saudi policy on its role in controlling global production] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Addison minute for MT (conversation with Laurens van der Post: situation in South Africa) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [coal, G5 and dollar, running costs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Conservative MPs (teachers’ pay dispute: Burnham Committee meeting) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (teachers’ pay dispute) [response to rejection of offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Manpower Numbers: Staff in Post at 1 July 1985”) [“reduction since the Government took office in 1979 is some 18.6 per cent”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“President’s Council Report on Influx Control and Urbanisation”) [widely welcomed by business & PFP] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“Canada and South Africa”) [Clark’s statement in the Parliament: full sanctions unless "tangible movement away from apartheid"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Brussels to FCO (“South Africa: Withdrawal of Military Attaches”) [Belgium withdrawing accreditation of SA Military Attaché] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Expenditure 1986-1987”) [the Policy Unit’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee: Local Government Advertising”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [borrowing request] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Foreign Currency Borrowing”) [HMG dollar floating rate note issue: revised briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“Policy toward South Africa”) [Chequers seminar] [declassified 2014]
  • Previous
  • Next

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.

Legend

  • Full Text Full text on site
  • PDF PDF
  • Photo Photo
  • Video Video
  • Audio Audio
  • Info Only Info only (no text available)
  • CD Only Text on CD only