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PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("European issues") [challenge & opportunity] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("European issues") [as annotated by MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("Energy Issues") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for MT ('Rhodesia') [MT: "I agree we need care but a little courage is necessary too"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Overall Economic Outlook: Note by the Central Unit") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Central Policy Review Staff paper ("The Economy of the United Kingdom - Problems, Constraints, Opportunities") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) General Election: William Lithgow letters to MT & Denis Thatcher (congratulations on election victory) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge minute to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit: 10/11 May") [arrangements and draft programme] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge minute to MT ("Guest List for your Dinner for Chancellor Schmidt") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 ("Administrative Plan for the Visit of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Herr Helmut Schmidt...") [arrangements and programme] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Schmidt") [MT: "there are really too many" of these kinds of visits] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Britain and the EC") [Taoiseach unsympathetic to British budget complaints] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (forwards letter from Muzorewa) [asks advice on response] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 minute for MT (attaches Muzorewa letter) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Hunt minute to MT (industrial relations legislation) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit") [British nuclear deterrent, NATO, Turkey] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (response to Muzorewa letter) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Lankester minute to MT ("Doctors' and Dentists' Pay") [letters from British Medical Association and British Dentral Association regarding Report of Review Body on pay] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting) [Budget, etc] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Nott minute to MT ("Queen's Speech: Abolition of the Price Commission") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Henry Ford II letter to MT (congratulations on election) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to FCO ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit, 10/11 May 1979") [MT's comments on arrangements for visit] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hunt minute to MT (appointment of Derek Rayner to head review into promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste in Government departments) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hunt minute to MT (briefing notes for meeting with Derek Rayner) [Rayner "should be a hatchetman"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Cardinal Hume (appointment of Ministers to Northern Ireland Office) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Brasilia letter to FCO (“Visit of the Italian Foreign Minister to Brazil”) [Italian elections, Braziilan attitudes on Latin America] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Hunt briefing on advance planning) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Cardona note (public expenditure plans in opposition) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Minute to MT ("Extract from Informal Cabinet Meeting 8 May 1978, 2:30pm") [delay to abolition of Price Commission] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Future of the Price Commission") [abolition of the price commission] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lankester minute to Cabinet Office ("Energy Issues") [MT's comments on Hunt's briefing] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lankester minute to Department of Energy (priority energy issues) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 1 (Committee Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt note circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 1 (Committee Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Stowe minute to Bancroft ("A Freeze on Manpower") [Civil Service recruitment freeze] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge note to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit: Your Speech After Dinner on 10 May") [MT: Draft speech "is excellent"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 to FCO ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit, 10/11 May: Briefs") [MT's comments on briefs] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("New British Government: Irish Press Reactions") [press reactions "cautious and restrained"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cardinal Hume letter to MT (letter of congratulations and request for meeting) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(79) 1 (Draft Queen’s Speech) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ian Gilmour-Foreign Secretary) [EC budget] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (MT comments on Hunt's incoming brief) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Muzorewa letter to MT (assurance of support) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Adam Ridley minute to MT ("Economic Strategy") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Queen's Speech - Abolition of the Price Commission") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT (letter to MT from Deputy Chairman of the Price Commission, Leslie Pincott) [Pincott "expresses concern at reports that the Price Commission may be abolished"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Freeze on Manpower") [Civil Service recruitment freeze] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit 10-11 May") [arrangements for visit] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Goodchild note to MT ("Dinner for Chancellor Schmidt: Thursday, 10 May") [MT comments on seating plan] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to MT ("Visit of Chancellor Schmidt: EEC Budget") [briefing of proposed solution to budget problem] [declassified 2009]

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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