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PDF 79 May 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [briefing on political situation in France] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Stowe minute to Rayner ("The Rayner Project") [summary of conclusions following Rayner's discussion with MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Hunt minute to Cartledge ("Community Budget") [briefing on EEC budget prior to MT's trip to Paris] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [briefing on French political figures] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cartledge minute to MT ("Your Visit to Paris - 5 June 1979") [briefing documents] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (prescription charges) [second thoughts] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris, 5 June") [Elysee post-meeting press briefing] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Giscard D'Estaing (letter of thanks and energy matters) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris: French Press Coverage") [""Bravo Mrs Thatcher" is one of the headlines"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Beverly) [Governor’s agenda for meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Norman Strauss joins Policy Unit) [try to avoid stories on lines of “Mr Soap moving into No. 10”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 10 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT and DT letter Prince Philip (happy birthday message) [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to the Lord Bishop Suffragen of Warrington (aid to the developing world) [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT personal minutes to Whitelaw, Carrington and Pym (Nuclear Release Procedures) [minutes withheld] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (meeting with Egyptian President, Vietnamese refugees, proposed Tube strike,TUC Economic Committee) [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Zambian High Commissioner Chibesakunda) [argumentative] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Greenborough letter to MT (CBI Council resolution on budget) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Note by officials ("Preliminary Draft Conclusions") [draft at 1300 21 June, annotated by MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Hugh Thomas note to Gow ("The Renewal of Britain") [draft for speech] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: ACAS letter to Prior (Employment Protection Act) [industrial relations legislation] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 10 (Rhodesia: Lord Harlech's Report) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Stephens minute to MT (lunch with the Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Whitmore letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Canberra: Rhodesia") [records of meetings in Canberra] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: No.10 record of phone call (MT-President Carter) (G7; Rhodesia; security; Northern Ireland) [post-G7 catch up call] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (mortgage rates, MPs’ salaries, changes to PM’s Questions?) [“no intervention” in setting mortgage rates] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Pay: Some Current Questions (E(79) 13 and 17)") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Biffen minute for MT ("Pay Increases and Public Expenditure") [Treasury agrees with KJ on pay & cash limits] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Hunt briefing for MT ("Review of Dispersal Programme (E(79) 26)") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Jul 28 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison and John Ward letter to MT (portrait of Peter Thorneycroft) ["I was very honoured to be asked to draw Peter Thorneycroft's portrait"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 2196 to FCO (2250Z) ("US/Israel Relations") [US/Israeli relations going through "a very tense phase"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zimbabwe: MT letter to Bishop Muzorewa (CHOGM agreement on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia) [released 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: MT letter to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia PM Muzorewa (CHGM statement) ["trust our good faith"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Commonwealth record of conversation (Lusaka Heads of Government Meeting Session 10) [Elective Posts in the Secretariat; "Declaration on Racism and Racial Prejudice"; Communiqué; Next meeting of Senior Officials; Closure] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe-Rhodesia PM Muzorewa letter to MT (thanks for personal message regarding Lusaka conference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Hunterston Ore Terminal") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: No.10 minute to FCO (“Mr Arthur Burns”) [MT should be aware “that when Mr Burns left the Federal Reserve Board he was not on the best of terms with President Carter”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO ("Rhodesia") [lack of leverage through aid programmes] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting (record of conversation) [executive perks] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to James Kilfedder MP (MT rejects call to recall Parliament in wake of Warrenpoint ambush and Mountbatten murder) ["I must emphasise that this decision in no way detracts from the seriousness with which the Government views recent events"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (defends policy) [not an "about face"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Ian Gow note (influencing US opinion) [need for cabinet level speech on “the true nature of those who seek to replace the ballot box with the bullet and the bomb”] [released 2017]
PDF 79 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 letter to FCO ("North Sea Interest Relief Grant Scheme") [termination of scheme] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Department of Trade letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [future negotiations with Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lawson minute to MT ("Timing of Exchange Control Package and BP Share Sale") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hunt minute to Lankester ("Inner London Magistrates Court Strike") [brief for MT's meeting with Ministers] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Whitelaw letter to Jenkin ("Contingency planning in the Health Service") [use of armed services] [declassified Dec 2011]
CD only 79 Sep 30 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Now! magazine
PDF 79 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Joseph minute to MT ("Milk Prices") [proposed increase of milk price] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 1355 to UKE Washington (1807Z) ("Arms for the RUC") [Carrington meeting with US Ambassador Brewster] [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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