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PDF 90 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Peter Walker, NUM) [alleged contributions from Russia and Libya to NUM's coal strike fund] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Germany) [papers give Kohl a good pounding] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge demonstrations) [Labour embarrassed by demos] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Al Fayed, Community Charge) [more Community Charge demonstrations] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [demonstrations in London] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Tory Party) [The fightback against the fainthearts and plotters begins] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Economy and Politics) [Conservatives rally as you repeat your determination to carry on as leader] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Iraq, Irish Problem) [Anglo-Irish relations plunge to a new low] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Political Comment, Social Security, Gorbachev (East/West)) [bad opinion polls] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget, Bazoft) [journalist executed in Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Germanys: Comment, Budget, Politics) [calls for a grand coalition to unite the Germanys] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget, Bazoft) [journalist executed in Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: De Satge minute to Charles Powell (European Democratic Group) [assisting the campaign in Hungary] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (The Budget - Treatment, The Budget - Comment) [Chancellor on the whole pleases the battered Conservative Party] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Budget/By-Election) [deterioriating situation in Eastern Europe] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Mid-Staffs by-election, MT's Royal Society speech, etc) ["Maggie's Day of Disaster"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT ("The Scottish Office") [relations between Forsyth and Rifkind have never been good] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics) [Gorbachev's troops take over Kremlin] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT ("Malcolm Rifkind") ["injudicious remarks" on Community Charge concessions] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Politics) [piling on the turmoil in Tory Party] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Lithuania) [Lithuanian president appeals to West for help] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Iraq) [attempts to export nuclear detonators to Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Konigswinter speech) [Tebbit versus Heseltine for leadership, MT's views on East-West] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Riot comment) [riot at Strangeways, riot in Trafalgar Square] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Jail/riots) [prisoners still control half of Strangeways] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT (Walker on Rifkind) [party in Scotland damaged by Rifkind's threat to resign] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Prisons/riots) [Labour react angrily at capping of 20 Labour-controlled councils] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hong Kong bill) [up to 80 Tories expected to vote against] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Strangeways riot, Community Charge) [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: MT minute to John Major (RPI) [inclusion of community charge reliefs; possible surcharge for incomes over £50,000 p.a.] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: David Lidington minute to John Whittingdale ("European Movement") [complaints about MT's patronage of the EM] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hostage Release) [France comes in for press criticism] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Teachers) [Lithuania asks US for help against Soviet threat to cut energy supplies] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, The Gun - comment) [Soviet-Lithuania conflict escalating] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [Norman Tebbit crushed in Hong Kong vote] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT ("Meeting with Michael Forsyth") [state of the party in Scotland] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: John Whittingdale minute to MT (meeting with Christopher Prout) [European Democratic Group's views on ERM and EMU] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Schools/race) [latest polling, Community Charge, situation in Eastern Europe] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [riots in Bristol] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Strangeways) [prison siege ends] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (EC Summit, Strangeways) [Conservative critics of Community Charge, prison riot, European unity] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [predictions for local elections] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, EC) [Kinnock says Conservatives are ready to get rid of you] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, EC, Community Charge presentation comment) [Gorbachev and May Day protests in Moscow] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Elections, Hostages comment) [pressure to open talks with Iran] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Major says inflation will fall by end of year; Heseltine article giving alternative to community charge, etc) [MT marked text] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT to Bill Hughes (Scottish local election results) [satisfied with many of the results] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (football violence) [soccer authorities cave in to Home Secretary] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [Heseltine calls for urgent changes] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Heseltine [article giving his alternative to community charge], etc) ["Heseltine gets an appalling press; put up or shut up, they say, and some claim he has blown it"] [released Feb 2020]

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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