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Text 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Police and Criminal Evidence Act") [police anxieties about the Act] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Soviet National Day Reception") [ministerial representation should be consistent wtih desire to conduct businesslike dialogue with Soviets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Community: InterGovernmental Conference") [meeting with Michael Butler: key issues; negotiating tactics] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks - Meeting with Mr Molyneaux and Mr Paisley") [brief for meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [handling of meeting with Howe and Hurd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO letter to MOD ("Alleged Soviet Violations of the ABM Treaty") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Hungary telegram to FCO ("My Call on Janos Kadar") [UK ambassador conversation preceding General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Hungary telegram to FCO ("Kadar's visit to London: scene-setter") [General Secretary János Kádár "...thinks that he has secured Gorbachev's approval for further reform... But he also needs the help of the West"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 briefing for MT ("Kádár's Hungary: or 29 Years is a Long Time in Politics") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK: biographical note] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: David Hunt PS letter to No.10 (visit to Hungary) [background for General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr Kadar: 31 October - 2 November") [General Secretary János Kádár; "the Hungarians see Kadar's visit to London as the most significant event in Anglo-Hungarian relations since the War"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL") [ailing British Leyland being taken in hand by Government; Unipart to be sold off] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet Discussion of Public Expenditure") [defence spending] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Scotland: Local Authority Spending") [Younger "is trying his usual tactics"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Housing") [extent of housing problems] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [morale could do with a boost] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Star Chamber") [attempts to get programmes back to baseline] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: notes on 'how SERPS works' & on proposed reforms; MT notes that she wishes to discuss] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (H Committee decisions) [28 vs 24 week abortion term, MT thinking perhaps a government issue] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Drugs-Pakistan”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [banking supervision,TSRB, fiscal adjustment and the Autumn Statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Edwards letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“risk the criticism… [of] implementing loans by other means”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights - renewal of optional Clauses 25 and 46 (Right of Individual Petition and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No10 (“Prime Minister’s Oral Statement: CHOGM and Visit to New York”) [draft statement focusing on discussions of South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“‘H’ on Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa - a responsible Black Homeland leader’s view”) [Mabuza speech on government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Building Societies Commission”) [arrangements for the supervision of building societies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Economic Secretary to the Treasury minute to MT (“Visit to Washington and New York: 22-28 September”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Structure of Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT (“Banking Supervision”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“President Reagan’s Meeting with Allied Leaders”) [MT suggestions to Reagan: points to make to Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative Research: United Kingdom Participation”) [OD meeting, 28 Oct 1985] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling letter to John MacGregor (“Emergency Relief for Livestock Sector”) [aid package proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling minute to MT (“Emergency Aid for Farmers”) [assistance from the European Commission] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Church Commissioners Secretary minute to Church Commissioners (“Investment and South Africa”) [copied to No.10 for interest] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 25 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech to Finchley Conservatives
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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).

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