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PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Rayner letter to MT (accepts invitation to become an adviser) ["I shall do my utmost to bring about the changes that are needed"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May") [brief for MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: HMT letter to No.10 (problems inherited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer from previous government) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: British Council of Churches letter to MT (request for meeting) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Hunt briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Foreign Affairs and Community Affairs") [procedures for EC business] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (immediate monetary prospect) [monetary growth at top of range] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lankester minute to MT (Announcement of the Budget Date) [MT: “as soon as possible”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Adam Ridley note for MT (public expenditure decisions in opposition) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Joseph minute to MT (abolition of the Price Commission) [Joseph favours immediate abolition] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Nott memo circulated to E Committee - E(79) 2 (Future of the Price Commission) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jenkin note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 3 (Report on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Gilmour memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 2 (Gilbert Islands Independence) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(79) 1st (freeze on Civil Service manpower) [extract with MT's annotations] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to Cartledge ("Fisheries") [briefing for talks with Chancellor Schmidt] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT speaking notes for discussion with Chancellor Schmidt ("First Session of Talks with Chancellor Schmidt") [Anglo/German relations, EEC, defence, Turkey, plans for Plenary Session] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Agriculture minute to No.10 ("UK and German Interests in the Common Agricultural Policy") [briefing for talks with Chancellor Schmidt] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Schmidt) [first session of discussion] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran Internal Situation") [political developments] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Lynch) [Northern Ireland, economic issues] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure minute for Nick Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [background briefing on Falklands dispute] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(79) 1st (Government Business, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Queen’s Speech, Collective Responsibility) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe:No.10 minute for MT (Carrington wants early meeting of OD) [MT agrees] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (proposes Duff visit Rhodesia) [MT agrees] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Public Expenditure") ["early report on the seriousness of the situation"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt draft briefing for Ministers ("Pay and Cash Limits") [MT: "Discussion on this paper in Cabinet would be futile..."] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Future of the Price Commission (E(79) 2)...") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 3 (Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Wall letter to Cartledge ("Overseas Visits by the Prime Minister") [FCO advises MT to visit Australia] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine minute to MT ("Manpower") [local government manpower reductions] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Freeze on Civil Service Manpower") [draft paper by Soames, annotations by MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [Plenary Session] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [partial record of Plenary Session, nuclear matters] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Transcript of MT/Schmidt press conference ("Press Conference on 11 May 1979 given by Prime Minister Mrs. Thatcher & Chancellor Schmidt") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Text of MT speech for Chancellor Schmidt ("The Prime Minister's Luncheon For The Federal German Chancellor and his Delegation, Friday 11 May 1979") [relections on meetings] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-FRG Minister of Finance) [economic issues, EEC budget, Turkey] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Dicussions with Chancellor Schmidt on 10 May: Fisheries") [details of meeting] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Maureen Harris, secretary to Rayner, letter to Stowe (second copy of Rayner's acceptance letter) [Stowe: "This procedure does not commend itself to me as an example of efficiency and avoiding waste!"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between the Prime Minister and Mr Lynch: Press Reaction") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Manpower") [staffing restraint in local government] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hall minute for Nick Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [options for future policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary Note circulated to Cabinet - CC(79) 2 (Queen’s Speech) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Howe & Prior memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(79) 3 (Standing Commission on Pay Comparability) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Vile minute to Cartledge ("European Issues") [Bonn, Barcelona Conventions] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym-Apel meeting in Brussels (record of conversation) [including theatre nuclear forces] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hailsham minute to MT ("Price Commission") [cabinet procedure] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Prior minute to MT (industrial relations legislation) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (79) 1st (Price Commission, Teachers' Pay) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(79) 1st (Rhodesia, SALT, EEC Matters) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cartledge minute to MT ("Meeting with President Gisard D'Estaing") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nick Ridley minute to Ure ("Falkland Islands") [Ridley's comments on options for future policy] [declassified 2012]

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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).

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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