Search

Search

Searched for: Hayekdoc. Document type: Declassified documents.

Refine this search

Browse PM’s files

Showing items 51 - 100 of 128.
PDF 78 Jul 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (response to Mr. William Wallace) [democratic and authoritarian rule]
PDF 78 Jul 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (Callaghan's remarks on inflation) ["sometimes one wonders whether [politicians] are not deceiving themselves by using language which they do not understand"]
PDF 78 Oct 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Lawson letter to Hayek (thanks for Hayek's compliments about Lawson's article in The Times ) ["There is no-one from whom such a letter could have been more welcome"]
PDF 78 Dec 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Milton Friedman letter to Ralph Harris (plans for visit to the UK) ["Whether [MT] really has the capacities that Britain so badly needs at this time, I must confess, seems to me still a very open question..."]
PDF 79 Jan 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Economist (comment on remark by Harold Macmillan) ["How uninformed does Mr. Harold Macmillan wish to appear...?"]
PDF 79 Jan 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to William Rees-Mogg (article offered to The Times )
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (letter of thanks for Harris' review of Douglas Hurd's book) ["I passed it on to Margaret for use in her material"]
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Ryder letter to Hayek (MT thanks Hayek for his sending her a copy of Law, Legislation and Liberty , Volume 3)
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek (notes on New Statesman , The Economist and The Spectator responses to IEA papers) ["Christopher Hitchens wanted to meet you..."]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Friedrich Hayek (thanks for congratulations) [“have learnt so much from you over the past few years”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Friedman MSS) Conservatism: MT note to Ralph Harris (message of thanks to IEA) ["let me thank you all for what you have done for the cause of free enterprise..."]
PDF 79 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harries letter to unknown recipient (Alfred Sherman letter of recommendation)
PDF 79 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Alfred Sherman letter to Ralph Harris (suggests regular meetings of CPS and IEA to exchange ideas) [handwritten comments by Arthur Seldon and John Wood]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to MT (recommends holding referendum on trade union policy)
Text 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Pages from Hayek's diary (visits to No.10 Downing Street, the IEA and LSE)
PDF 80 Jan 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Friedman MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to Anthony Fisher (need for more institutes like the London IEA) ["The future of civilisation may really depend on whether we can catch the ear of a large enough part of the upcoming generation of intellectuals..."]
PDF 80 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (US response to the Iran hostage crisis) ["I am genuinely puzzled by the restraint shown by the United States in the recent emergency..."]
PDF 80 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: David Wood article on lecture by Ian Gilmour ("Sir Ian comes out of his shell") [dispute between "wets" and "dries"]
PDF 80 Feb 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Fred Emery article on dispute in Government over trade union immunities ("Curb on unions issue hangs in balance") [dispute between "wets" and "dries"]
PDF 80 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to William Rees-Mogg (article by Ian Gilmour) [Gilmour's article will "force me to speak out"]
PDF 80 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: David Black and Peter Hennessy article on MT's approach to Civil Service ("Mrs Thatcher keeps close eye on top Civil Service postings") [Whitehall source: "...a 59-year-old Keynesian would not stand much chance of promotion"]
PDF 80 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Friedman MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Anthony Fisher (message of support for IEA) ["...I applaud your aim to build on the success of the IEA in Europe, America and further afield"]
PDF 80 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Fred Emery article on comments by Jim Prior on trade union law reform ("Mr Prior defends his 'middle way'") [Prior: "Sometimes it requires courage to stand against the stream. I believe I am standing against the stream"]
PDF 80 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Lawson MSS) Conservatism: Lawson minute to MT ("Visit of Milton Friedman'") [brief for MT's forthcoming meeting with Friedman]
PDF 80 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Frank Hahn and Robert Neild article on monetarism ("Monetarism: why Mrs Thatcher should beware'") ["There are neither theoretical foundations nor empirical support for the monetarists' [central claims]..."]
PDF 80 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to MT (Hayek's forthcoming Monday Club lecture)
PDF 80 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to William Rees-Mogg (thanks for text of Gilmour's Cambridge lecture, Hayek's forthcoming lecture to the Monday Club)
PDF 80 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: William Rees-Mogg letter to Hayek (thanks for text Hayek's lecture to the Monday Club) ["We are planning to use a short extract from the lecture on inflation..."]
PDF 80 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Economy: Hayek letter to MT (opposes gradualism in terminating inflation) ["because of the incident misery no government could last out"]
PDF 80 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to Hayek (disagrees that she should have reduced borrowing and monetary expansion more rapidly) ["too much social and economic disruption in the short-run ... to have been feasible"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Aug 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to The Times ("Socialism's record called into question") ["China will go capitalist. Soviet Russia will not survive the century...Socialism is an irrelevance"]
PDF 80 Sep 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to William Rees-Mogg (Hayek offers piece for use in The Times ) ["Since you can find space for Heffer and Jay, your readers may not be too much shocked by a somewhat radical "laissez faire" position"]
PDF 80 Sep 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon to Hayek (planned meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Chile) [market economies and representative democracy]
PDF 80 Oct 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon to Hayek ("Hobart Paper: Trade Unions Cause the Unemployment of the 80s") [trade union reform]
PDF 80 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon to Hayek ("Hobart Paper: Trade Unions Cause the Unemployment of the 80s") [trade union reform]
Text 80 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Commentary ( The Times ) Conservatism: Article from The Times ("Abuse of union power 'main cause of jobless'") [Hayek on need for trade union reform]
PDF 81 Jan 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek article from The Times ("The flaws in the Brandt report'")
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (criticism of reporting on inflation and recession)
PDF 81 Apr 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (response to statement criticising MT's economic policies by 364 economists) ["It should surprise no one that the lost generation of British economists who had succumbed to the teaching of Lord Keynes should form a panicking mob when a reversal of the policies they had inspired reveals the damage they have done"]
PDF 81 Jul 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Friedman letter to Ralph Harris (concern about performance of Keith Joseph) ["We are finding what happens in Britain very hard to interpret and particularly the performance of Keith Joseph"]
PDF 81 Jul 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (criticism of references to Ludwig Erhard in articles by Tom Bower)
PDF 81 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Gilmour article in The Times ("How a move further right will sink the Tories") ["...the centre is the place where the Tory party should always be"]
PDF 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Friedman letter to Ralph Harris (MT's cabinet reshuffle and Reagan) ["I was glad to see the changes which Mrs. Thatcher made in her Cabinet; maybe that will do some good"]
PDF 81 Nov 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (Labour MPs referring to Hayek as 'von Hayek') ["I mention this in the hope that perhaps even Labour M.P.s can be shamed into not answering arguments by references to descent"]
Text 82 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (economy) [PM nervous over M1 figures; difficulties at PMQs over miserable economic prospects ][released 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to President Reagan (US-Iranian relations) ["...the only peaceful solution which we could find for this highly dangerous...problem: submit the whole issue to the International Court at the Hague"]
PDF 82 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to Arthur Seldon (essay by Professor Herbert Gjersch on present depression) ["I wish I could explain the central points as clearly as he has succeeded in doing"]
PDF 82 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Hayek (thoughts on the Chilean example) ["I am sure you will agree that, in Britain with our democratic institutions and the need for a high degree of consent, some of the measures adopted in Chile are quite unacceptable"]
Text 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM opposes indexed gilts conversion] [released 2012]

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.

Legend

  • Full Text Full text on site
  • PDF PDF
  • Photo Photo
  • Video Video
  • Audio Audio
  • Info Only Info only (no text available)
  • CD Only Text on CD only