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PDF 84 Jun 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT record of conversation (MT-President Botha) [presses on Mandela release: "Transkei takes responsibility"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Star") [letter to Lloyd Turner regarding changes to editorial line-up at tabloids, Jeffrey Archer case] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Hamilton record of conversation (Environment backbench committee) [most attendees want Community Charge brought in as soon as possible] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT ("James Goold") [hopes MT will visit Scotland next year] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Draft Article for Sunday Express, 3 January") [points made: look forward with confidence to the future, remind people of changes made, government delivering what people want] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Clothes diary (outfits worn) [1 Jan - 1 Dec 1988] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nigeria: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Visit by the Prime Minister 7-8 January") ["most successful visit ... establishing "close and friendly relationship with President Babangida"; British press 'deplorable'] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Whitelaw resignation, NUM, security, economy) ["you leave power struggle open by declining to nominate new deputy Prime Minister"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Rifkind minute to MT (paper on strategy in Scotland) ["level of support is dangerously low for the party of Government"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Italian PM Goria (thanks) [MT now longest serving British PM of 20th Century] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for telemessage) [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Paul Getty (thanks) [thank you for everything you do for our country] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Alhaji Udu (thanks) [arrangements for MT's visit to Nigeria] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Mary Whitehouse (thanks) ["Your own work to promote higher standards and civilised values has been tireless"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Michel Camdessus (IMF Structural Adjustment Facility) ["essential that the increased resources now be deployed carefully, in support of strong adjustment programmes"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: MT to Neil Kinnock (BP) [Kuwait Investment Office's holding of BP shares] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Labour in crisis, industry) [growing crisis on health service policies] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [Rifkind argues government should apply policies on housing, education and privatisation "more determinedly in Scotland"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Meeting with Lord Goold: Wednesday 13th January 1988") [to discuss current state of the party in Scotland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Griffiths-O'Sullivan minute ("Scotland. The Election Result") ["worst result for the Tories since 1945" - "a low reservoir of Conservative support North of the Border"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["NHS continues to dominate"], DTI revamp, industry, NHS, nurses, free food, politics, education, law & order, media, sport) [Tebbit, Heseltine and Brittan combine to criticise government plans to end automatic regional aid grants] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Government: MT to Neil Kinnock (request for file from Macmillan papers) [file is closed but some infomation could be released confidentially] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, NHS reforms, economy, law and order, NATO) [Liberals and SDP in turmoil after fiasco over merger] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, law and order, Shepherd Bill, NHS, Labour) [Steel's merger shambles] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Budget, Liberals/SDP, sport, law and order) [Kill or cure for Moore in health row] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Miss Wilson (MT's school records) [would be wrong to release the records] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Party Political Broadcast") [Tony Jay script - "a great nation on the move ... a new spirit abroad in the land ... The people who came here ten years ago to study the illness now come here to study the cure"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, health funding, Liberals/SDP, Labour Listens) [Sort NHS out, Moore is ordered] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting with Scottish ministers to discuss how to improve the party's position, Rifkind and Policy Unit have prepared papers] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT to Peter Carrington (public lecture on USSR) ["It would be marvellous if you would do it"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Budget, Liberals/SDP) [Mixed reviews for John Moore's performance in NHS debate] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute ("American Television Interviews") [MT's views on INF ratification] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Budget, media, industry) [Moore says militant hotheads can't be allowed to wreck the NHS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with L'Express") ["intended as a curtain raiser for the Anglo/French Summit... and also for the European Council"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Ly Tilney (thanks) [memories] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Art: MT to Amintore Fanfani (thanks) [delighted to receive book of paintings] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Gordon Brown (estimated cost of income tax cuts) ["at a time of economic growth, it is quite possible both to cut taxes and to increase the real resources available to the National Health Service"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Alton abortion bill, industry) [nurses' action will only harm patients] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) NHS: Ingham briefing for MT ('Panorama') [interview annoucing NHS Review] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Scargill re-election to NUM, NHS reforms, Liberal/SDP merger, industry) [Scargill effectively becomes president for life] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Hamilton record of conversation (MT-1922 Executive) [worry at lack of Opposition; MT - "great deal of opp[osition] H. of C., T.V."] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet/MT: Wicks minute for MT (Whitelaw invitation to reception to mark 10th anniversary in office, May 1989) [consider policy towards the event] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/MT's broadcast, Scargill re-election to NUM, industry, Liberal/SDP merger) [NHS faces huge shake-up] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks and Bernard Ingham minute ("Interview with the Star") [questions about: problems facing the NHS, electricity privatisation, capital punishment, violent crime, North/South divide, foreign policy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Security Services: MT to Tam Dalyell (Cavendish book on intelligence services) [government acted to restrain publication] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Hamilton record of conversation ("PUSS's") [Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of States - brainstorming lunch with MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet/MT: MT letter to Willie Whitelaw (thank you for cabinet dinner to celebrate passing Asquith's record) ["What a pity we don't meet together more often for convivial occasions. But perhaps there isn't time"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Northern Ireland, journalism, law and order, industry) [MT seen to be getting to grips with the NHS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, AIDS, industry) [Royal College of Nurses refuse to meet MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to Doris Hare (BBC interview announcing health review) [glad she thought Panorama went well, "they are always something of an ordeal"] [released Jul 2018]

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).

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