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PDF 78 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meeting with French) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan minute to Healey (consider wider role for SDRs as reserve currency) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Schulmann to Couzens (summary of Paris talks) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 May 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Washington with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) EMS: Stowe minute for PM on EMS (suggests bringing Foreign Secretary into the loop) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Stowe minute for PM on EMS (case for British taking initiative at Finance Council) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: UKE Paris to FCO (prospects for Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Chancellor note to PM (Treasury briefing papers for EMS seminar) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: UKE Paris to FCO (reports of Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens to No.10 (briefing on Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jun 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: No. 10 briefing for Callaghan (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: No.10 Seminar on EMS (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan notes on briefing for No.10 Seminar on EMS (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan-Jenkins meeting (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Foreign Secretary Minute to Chancellor (UK net budget contribution to EC) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Treasury briefing for Callaghan (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (European Council) EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [procès-verbal - official French text]
PDF 78 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Callaghan meeting with Giscard & Schmidt) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (after dinner meeting) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (European Council) EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [procès-verbal - official French text]
PDF 78 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) G7: Bonn Summit (Schmidt phone call to Carter announcing EMS) [declassified 2000]
PDF 78 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Bremen European Council (statement by German Presidency on EMS) [extract] [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Treasury off-the-record press briefing on EMS (“not the greatest thing since sliced bread”) [declassified 2008]
Text 78 Jul 10 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt [Bremen European Council]
Text 78 Jul 11 Tu Press Major Commentary ( The Times ) EMS: “Treasury points out faults in ‘hurried’ currency proposals” (“sceptical to the point of contempt”)
PDF 78 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Couzens to No.10 (briefing on David Blake article attributing scepticism to Treasury) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Benn paper for cabinet (“Britain, Germany and the proposed EMS”) [extract] [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Jul 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt meeting (EMS) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Aug 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Sir Keith Joseph to John Nott (Sigmund Warburg urges joining EMS negotiations) [“killing it from within if need be”]
PDF 78 Sep 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Franklin memorandum for Hunt (EMS situation report) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Sep 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Wicks memorandum for PM (ministerial momentum building in favour of UK joining EMS) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Sep 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: UKE Bonn to FCO (Schmidt-Giscard talks in Aachen) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Sep 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan-Healey phone call (EMS) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Oct 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Cabinet Committee meeting on EMS (GEN136(78) 5th) (decision not to join) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Oct 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (briefing for Conservative shadows stressing political nature of proposals)
PDF 78 Oct 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Meeting of Shadows (Conservative view of European Monetary System) [deciding what to advise MT]
PDF 78 Oct 30 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Lawson note for MT ("The European Monetary System")
PDF 78 Oct 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Bank of England memo for PM (“EMS & the choice for the UK”) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Oct 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Lawson note ("France & the EMS")
PDF 78 Oct 31 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to MT ("European Monetary System") [Conservative line]
PDF 78 Nov 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: UKE Rome to FCO (frank account of Schmidt-Andreotti talks in Rome on EMS) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Nov 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan-Jenkins meeting (EMS & other EC issues) [declassified 2008]
Text 78 Nov 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bundesbank) EMS: President of the Bundesbank to Chancellor Schmidt (seeks assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Nov 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (government planning to join EMS but not exchange rate mechanism)
PDF 78 Nov 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan-Andreotti meeting (preparing for Brussels European Council ) [extract] [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Nov 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt phone call (EMS, economy, Guadeloupe) [declassified 2008]

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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