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PDF 74 Mar 16 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Heath: Robert Armstrong note (“Events leading to the resignation of Mr Heath’s Administration on 4 March 1974”) [declassified Oct 2005]
PDF 78 Mar 1 We Declassified documents Major Conservative Party Conservative Campaign Guide Supplement 1978
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Summary and Timetable of Urgent Economic Issues”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("Energy Issues") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Aug 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Lusaka Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (papers circulated during sessions) [large file] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Walker note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 11 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1980) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government buildings: Carrington minute to Heseltine (“International Conference Centre (ICC) - Broad Sanctuary”) [“worried by the practical and economic implications of any delay”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Taoiseach's visit") [internal politics; N. Ireland; international dimension; EC; trade; world economy; industrial relations/Employment Bill] [declassified Feb 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: HMQ's Private Secretary letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s audiences with the Queen) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Attorney General (Sir Peter Hayman) [security concerns arising from a police investigation into alleged sexual offences] [declassified Jan 2015]
PDF 81 Jul 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Joseph letter to BT Chairman (financing and investment) [“some progress at last in getting BT financing outside the PSBR”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to Willie Rickett ("Review of Administrative Forms") [drafts of Rayner cover minute/report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Forthcoming Budget - Fiscal Proposals") [update] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 minute to MT ("President Reagan's Address to Members of both Houses") [Westminster Hall and Royal Gallery as possible venues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jenkin minute to MT (“BL’s future structure”) [restructuring and privatisation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT Background Economic Briefing ("Ministerial Statements") [extracts from speeches and interviews following the Budget] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Central Policy Review Staff minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Longer term study on electricity prices”) [MT: “And without any consultation with me! - Not good”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Department of Industry briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Dr. David Clark) (1430Z) [redundancies in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Mr Pym's Statement in Parliament") [draft statement on Falklands Crisis] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 417 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falklands") [French and Dutch Government responses to sinking of the Belgrano - "extreme concern" of both ministers, Dutch called it "a dreadful incident"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Meetings with President Mitterrand and M. Mauroy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 1220 to UKE Washington (1600Z) ("Implications of Israeli Invasion of Lebanon") [intelligence assessment] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Jenkin-Biffen-Walters-Sparrow) ["Unemployment"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong minute to MT ("Frederick Forsyth's Proposed Book about the Falklands") [issues to consider] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 minute to Commonwealth War Graves Commission (Hong Kong war cemeteries and memorials) [background note for MT’s visit to Hong Kong] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Sparrow minute to MT ("Family Policy Group") [paper by Head of the CPRS, John Sparrow] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: CPRS letter to No.10 ("Family Policy Group") [list of proposals for action] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 (“Report of Lord Bridge’s Inquiry into the Trestrail affair”) [review of vetting procedures] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Department of Employment letter to No.10 (ability of firms to cut wages) [Tebbit's views] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (European Council, Brussels, 21/22 March) [full briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Buildings: No.10 minute to Tom King PS (House of Commons Services Committee: report on the development of the Bridge Street site) [No.10 corrects Department of Environment's impression that MT has approved development regardless of public expenditure implications] [released Jul 2015]
Text 83 May 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Elections: MT letter to Michael Foot MP (General Election) [announcement & key dates; dissolution of Parliament] [released July 2018]
Text 83 Jul 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Elections: Attorney General letter to Leon Brittan (Meeting of Parliament Act 1797) [constitutional significance of Monarch's death occurring between a dissolution of one Parliament and formation of the next, and the terrorist/anarchist threat, by implication, posed to Queen & country during a General Election campaign] [released July 2018]
PDF 83 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("The Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM) Programme") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Gregson minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and MCCs") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: No.10 minute to MT ("The Mountbatten ceremony: Wednesday, 2 November") [draft speech for statue unveiling, largely by Hailsham; arrangements for the day] [declassified Feb 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (international comparisons of interest rates) [MT request for comparisons between UK, Germany & Japan following meeting with CBI] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3332 to FCO (0553Z) ("Grenada") ["The Americans continue to express regret about the lack of any adequate consultation"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord Bridge letter to MT (Security Commission Report on the Aldridge case) [submission of Report: officer charged with breach of Official Secrets Act 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Fowler (Family Practitioner Service) [bringing spending under control] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Kerr note to Turnbull ("Coal Prices") [MT 'accepts that it would not be right to tackle the problem of NCB's loss-making capacity by enforcing a higher coal price on the electricity industry'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(84) 5)") [public spending and borrowing, Medium Term Financial Strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: John Coles minute to MT ("Westland helicopters for India") [Indian request for additional aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT letter to No.10 (draft Budget Speech with MT annotations) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Tebbit minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Power Project") [analysis of GEC bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: CRD briefing ("The Policing of the Miners' Dispute: 10th April 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Fowler PS minute to No.10 ("Financial Support for the NSPCC") [review & centenary grant proposal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood and Pascall minute to MT ("The Coal Industry") [NUM decisions on ballot and national strike, miners' opinion and public opinion, winning a prolonged strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal: Operating Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]

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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).

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